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Chiltern, a global CRO headquartered in the UK, announced it has signed a purchase agreement to acquire Theorem Clinical Research, based in Wilmington, NC. The combined company will operate under the name Chiltern and will gain global reach - most notably in China and Japan - as well as new service offerings for medical devices and diagnostics, clinical analytics and clinical supplies. The transaction is expected to close within the next several weeks. 

Whether we are referring to CSRs or to IPD, the personal information of trial participants needs to be de-identified prior to release. This article will describe the available methods for de-identifying clinical trial data, and the relative strengths and weaknesses of each.

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