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2009
Ethics involves wrestling with difficult, conflicting courses of action. Medical ethics, and psychiatric ethics in particular, is especially challenging, given the need to negotiate a course of action with patients and family. Confidentiality, which is at the centre of psychiatric practice, and is essential if psychiatric treatment is to be successful,
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Ethics involves wrestling with difficult, conflicting courses of action. Medical ethics, and psychiatric ethics in particular, is especially challenging, given the need to negotiate a course of action with patients and family. Confidentiality, which is at the centre of psychiatric practice, and is essential if psychiatric treatment is to be successful,
David I. Joseph +2 more
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The Confidentiality of “Confidential” Lost Letters
The Journal of Social Psychology, 1977Summary In a variant of the lost-letter technique, 400 unsealed envelopes containing important or unimportant messages were distributed in Ottawa, Ontario. Half of the envelopes had the word “CONFIDENTIAL” stamped on them while half had no such warning. Important messages were more likely to be returned; confidentiality had no effect on return rate per
Lloyd H. Strickland, John C. Barefoot
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Confidentiality and the courts
Medical Journal of Australia, 1999There is a general belief that, once in the witness box, doctors are compelled to reveal confidential information about their patients if asked by counsel. Where no issue of public interest is involved, a medical witness should ask the court to rule in its inherent discretion that the information sought is confidential and privileged.
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Confidentiality 4: patient confidentiality and the courts
British Journal of Nursing, 1999Arthur Green, a staff nurse at Roger Park Hospital, had been told by a patient, Dan Davies, that his injuries occurred when he was attempting to burgle a house and fell from a window. Arthur promised Dan that he would never disclose this information.
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Medicine, 2000
Abstract There are two basic principles that underlie, or ought to underlie, the law of confidentiality. The first is that private individuals are entitled to protection against the disclosure without consent of confidential information about themselves and their activities unless there is a sufficient public interest reason why the ...
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Abstract There are two basic principles that underlie, or ought to underlie, the law of confidentiality. The first is that private individuals are entitled to protection against the disclosure without consent of confidential information about themselves and their activities unless there is a sufficient public interest reason why the ...
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The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2004
The concept of confidentiality is examined from its absolute position espoused by some psychoanalysts to the many exceptions to this position allowed by others. The suggestion made in this paper is offered as a psychoanalytic one which urges us to see confidentiality as posing risks in both positions, that is, the absolute and the necessary exceptions.
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The concept of confidentiality is examined from its absolute position espoused by some psychoanalysts to the many exceptions to this position allowed by others. The suggestion made in this paper is offered as a psychoanalytic one which urges us to see confidentiality as posing risks in both positions, that is, the absolute and the necessary exceptions.
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Nursing Ethics, 1998
Two conditions are commonly taken to constitute an obligation of confidentiality: information is entrusted by one person to another; and there is an express understanding that this will not be divulged. This conception of confidentiality, however, does not match much of the practice of health care.
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Two conditions are commonly taken to constitute an obligation of confidentiality: information is entrusted by one person to another; and there is an express understanding that this will not be divulged. This conception of confidentiality, however, does not match much of the practice of health care.
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2006
This chapter looks at the Data Protection Act and other legislation governing confidential information. It explains how information may be shared, for example for research. It deals with the ethical obligations placed on pharmacists and looks at when disclosure may be required by law.
Jon Merrills, Jonathan Fisher
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This chapter looks at the Data Protection Act and other legislation governing confidential information. It explains how information may be shared, for example for research. It deals with the ethical obligations placed on pharmacists and looks at when disclosure may be required by law.
Jon Merrills, Jonathan Fisher
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A Perspective on Confidentiality
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1974The confidentiality of communications from psychiatric patients is threatened from many directions. The traditional stance of psychiatrists has been to proclaim total confidentiality as the principle and then to make exceptions. As third-party payers, peer review structures, and governmental agencies erode the exclusively dyadic doctor-patient ...
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Nursing Forum, 1989
AIDS has created many challenges for those who provide care for AIDS patients. One major challenge has been the request of many public officials for healthcare professionals to abandon the traditional view of confidentiality and to reveal AIDS patients' names.
Shirley K. Bell, Mary B. Kirkman
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AIDS has created many challenges for those who provide care for AIDS patients. One major challenge has been the request of many public officials for healthcare professionals to abandon the traditional view of confidentiality and to reveal AIDS patients' names.
Shirley K. Bell, Mary B. Kirkman
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