Sharing patient information between professionals: confidentiality and ethics
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Sharing patient information between professionals: confidentiality and ethics.
Careful consideration of the ethical implications is required before patient information should be shared without the patient's knowledge. Routine and apparently uncontroversial releases of information can be perceived as problematic by patients. The ethics of such "ordinary" breaches of confidence can be explored by considering the patient's autonomy, the patient's best interests, and the publ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Journal of Australia
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0025-729X,1326-5377
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05195.x