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How Confidential Is Confidential?

Orthopaedic Nursing, 2008
Violations of patient confidentiality occur all too frequently. Conversations about patients and their care can be heard throughout hospitals. Although these conversations are necessary to manage the care of patients, the breach of confidentiality is of concern because of where the discussions occur and what is being communicated in public places ...
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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
Lloyd H. Strickland, John C. Barefoot
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Children’s confidentiality [PDF]

open access: possibleArchives of Disease in Childhood, 2021
Consent makes lawful either the otherwise unwanted touch or the otherwise unwanted disclosure of private information. In medical practice, the unwanted touch is easily characterised by the various potentially harmful physical interventions we employ on a daily basis; administration of medicines, invasive investigations or surgery are elementary ...
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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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Confidentiality

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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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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Confidentiality

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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A risk of confidentiality

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 Limits of Confidentiality

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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5. Confidentiality

2014
This chapter discusses the principle of confidentiality. It explains the protection of lawyer-client communications and it discusses professional guidance on confidentiality. It goes on to examine the rule of legal professional privilege and the circumstances in which lawyers have a duty to disclose.
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