Dynamic Consent: A Possible Solution to Improve Patient Confidence and Trust in How Electronic Patient Records Are Used in Medical Research

Hawys Williams   ¹ , PhD ;   Karen Spencer   ² , PhD ;   Caroline Sanders   ² , PhD ;   David Lund   ³ , PhD ;   Edgar A Whitley   ⁴ , PhD ;   Jane Kaye   ⁵ , PhD ;   William G Dixon   ^{1, 6} , PhD

¹ Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

² Centre for Primary Care, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

³ HW Communications, Lancaster, United Kingdom

⁴ Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom

⁵ HeLEX - Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

⁶ Health eResearch Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom