'The more you link, the more you risk ... ' - a focus group study exploring views about data linkage for pharmacovigilance

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All authors have completed the Unified Competing Interest form at http://www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declare: all authors had support from the Chief Scientist Office Scotland for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organizations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous 3 years; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.This work was supported by the Chief Scientist Office (Child Medical Records for Safe Medicines (CHIMES) Applied Research Programme, grant number ARPG/07/4). We would like to thank all our participants for their time and contributions as well as the transcribers of the audio material.