Confidentiality
Subject's confidentiality is important to COGA. Subjects' names are never connected with the information they give. Rather, an ID number is assigned to them. COGA has also received the Confidentiality Certificate from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to protect researchers from being forced, even by court subpoena, to identify you. The Certificate adds protection only for the research information and does not mean the Secretary of DHHS approves or disapproves of the project.
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