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The Confidentiality of “Confidential” Lost Letters

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1977
Summary 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
John C. Barefoot, Lloyd H. Strickland
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Confidentiality 4: patient confidentiality and the courts

British Journal of Nursing, 1999
Arthur 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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Patient confidentiality

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2010
‘All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal.’ (Hippocrates, 4th century BC)
Michael, Keegan, Ros, Levenson
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AIDS and Confidentiality

Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1987
ABSTRACT AIDS raises the moral problem of confidentiality because those in sexual contact with the patient may contract a life‐threatening and incurable disease. Medicine has a tradition in which a patient's condition is regarded as confidential information held by the doctor alone.
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Confidentiality and the courts

Medical Journal of Australia, 1999
There 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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The Limits of Confidentiality

The Hastings Center Report, 1983
KIE: In an article adapted from her book Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation, Bok discusses the concept of confidentiality and its relation to secrecy, privacy, and privileged communication. Three premises--autonomy over personal information, respect for shared secrets in human relationships, and obligations incurred in promises ...
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Limitations of confidentiality

British Journal of Nursing, 2010
How far should we go in keeping secret what our patients tell us and in what they want us to tell others? This potential moral dilemma is well illustrated in a new and revealing Channel 4 drama about Mo Mowlam, the former Northern Ireland secretary who suffered a brain tumour while she was in office.
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Adolescent confidentiality

2011
Case narrative: conflicts between confidentiality and care Kathryn is a 16-year-old who lives with her divorced mother Stephanie. Four months ago, Kathryn was taken to the emergency department by her friend Annie, who later told Stephanie, who works full time, that Kathryn had been “like – totally bizarre,” but she didn’t know why. Kathryn was admitted
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Patients’ Confidentiality

Critical Care Nurse, 2012
Critical care providers are often privy to confidential information in the course of clinical practice. A dilemma can arise when confidential information is requested by family members or friends of the patient. Critical care nurses must be aware of the regulations regarding confidentiality, as well as situations where the use and disclosure of ...
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A Perspective on Confidentiality

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1974
The 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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