Who is eligible to request WA-APCD data?

Researchers

• Requests must be accompanied by an Institutional Research Board (IRB) determination.
• Researchers may request the broadest set of data elements, including, direct patient identifiers, indirect patient identifiers, unique identifiers, or combinations of these. Researchers must submit a rationale for each data element requested in their data applications.

Federal, State, Tribal, and Local Government Agencies

• These organizaitons may request data products containing indirect patient identifiers, unique identifiers, or any combination of these.
• Not eligible to request data with direct patient identifiers.

Private, vommercial, and other entities

• These organizations may, with an appropriate data-use agreement (DUA), request data products containing indirect patient identifiers or unique identifiers but not those that contain direct patient identifiers.

Release upon request (RUR) datasets

• Any person or entity is an eligible data user for RUR datasets.
• A RUR dataset does not contain direct patient identifiers, indirect patient identifiers, or any combination.