The role of health sciences libraries in supporting medical image consent standards survey documentation

Objective: To determine if health sciences library workers were familiar with best practices regarding informed consent for the publication of medical images and if they incorporate the recommendations into their professional work.Methods: A survey was developed by the authors and distributed to library listservs in the United States. The results of the survey were tabulated in R.Results: A total of 90 respondents were included in the data analysis with all respondents reporting multiple responsibilities in their professional role. While the majority of library workers (59%) were familiar with the best practices, few incorporated the recommendations into their everyday professional work.Conclusions: The professional work of health sciences library workers does not appear to include a significant inclusion of the best practices for the informed consent for the publication of medical images. There is a need for future research to better understand how library workers can better incorporat..., , , # Survey data and code

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vmcvdnd17](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vmcvdnd17)

The cleaned survey results as well as the R code used to analyze the data is made available here.

## Description of the data and file structure

Cleaned data.xlsx: This excel sheet contains the results of the survey conducted for our manuscript titled The Role of Health Sciences Libraries in Supporting Medical Image Consent Standards Survey. The research study was about informed consent standards for the publication of medical images. The survey participants were health sciences library workers. The survey participants were given the option to skip questions as well as stop the survey at any time. Based on their specific role in the library, questions were grouped into different sections. So, there will be missing values in the excel sheet either due to the role of the librarian or their decision to skip questions. The missing values have been taken into account in the analysis b...