Duty to third parties in employment references: a possible poisonous potion for the health care industry?

Patient threats against third parties: the psychotherapist's duty of reasonable care.

مطالعه‌ی تطبیقی رازداری پزشکی در بیماری‌های مقاربتی

Confidentiality has long been protected in criminal law as an important ethical principle. With regard to the issue of sexually transmitted diseases, however, health care providers are faced with certain challenges. On the one hand, it is their obligation and duty to respect patient confidentiality, and on the other hand, the possibility of transmission of infection to sexual partners is a rath...

Hospital, Employment, and Price Indicators for the Health Care Industry: Third Quarter 1999

This feature presents highlights from statistics on health care utilization, prices, expenses, employment, and work hours, as well as on national economic activity, with brief analysis of these economic indicators. These statistics provide an early indication of changes occurring in the health care sector and within the general economy. Although most data are for the first quarter of 1999, Amer...

مسؤولیت متخصصین سرطان نسبت به اطلاع‌رسانی به بیماران سرطانی درباره روش‌های حفظ باروری

Background and aim: Medical methods of cancer treatment affect patients` reproductive health that is under treatment. Of course it is possible to solve patients` fertility problems by using fertility preservation methods. Our goal was to examine responsibility of informing oncologists from the method of fertility preservation for cancerous patients. Method: In this paper, using the method of s...

Health Care Indicators: Hospital, Employment, and Price Indicators for the Health Care Industry: Third Quarter 1995

This regular feature of the journal includes a discussion of recent trends in health care spending, employment, and prices. The statistics presented in this article are valuable in their own right and for understanding the relationship between the health care sector and the overall economy. In addition, they allow us to anticipate the direction and magnitude of health care cost changes prior to...