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Duty to Recontact
Medical Definition: | The ethical and/or legal obligation of a health provider or researcher to communicate with a former patient or research subject about advances in research relevant to a treatment or to a genetic or other diagnostic test provided earlier, or about proposed new uses of blood or tissue samples taken in the past for another purpose. |
Also Called: | Duty to Follow Up,Recontact |
Duty to Recontact Medical Definitions and Terms
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