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QE41
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confidentiality
confidentialitéCategory label
ConfidentialityConfidentialitéQ-Code supplementary keywords
secret médicalQ-Code scope note
the principle in medical ethics that the information which a patient reveals to a physician is private and has limits on how and when it can be disclosed to a third party. Usually the physician must obtain permission from the patient to make such disclosures.(Woncadic)principe d'éthique médicale qui stipule que les informations d'un patient révélées à un médecin sont d'ordre privé et ne peuvent être divulguées à un tiers que dans des limites précises. Habituellement, le médecin doit obtenir la permission du patient pour les divulguer. (Woncadic)Q-Code conceptual content
Anonymous Testing ; Testing in which the source of the specimen or the person being tested is not individually identified.(MeSH)Confidentiality ; The obligation not to disclose information; the right of a person to withhold information from others. Information in medical records, case registries, and other data files and bases is generally confidential, and epidemiologists are required to obtain permission before being given access to it. This may be the informed consent of the person to whom the records relate or the permission of an institutional review board. Epidemiologists have an obligation to preserve confidentiality of information they obtain during their studies (Dicepid)Confidentiality ; The privacy of information and its protection against unauthorized disclosure.(MeSH)CONFIDENTIALITY; the principle in medical ethics that the information which a patient reveals to a physician is private and has limits on how and when it can be disclosed to a third party. Usually the physician must obtain permission from the patient to make such disclosures.(Woncadic)Duty to Warn A health professional's obligation to breach patient CONFIDENTIALITY to warn third parties of the danger of their being assaulted or of contracting a serious infection.(MeSH)INTEGRITY a physician must respect the physical, psychological, and social privacy of the patients by actively and explicitly treating them as equal human beings, whose opinions about their own health are important.(Woncadic)Privacy ;The state of being undisturbed or free from public attention. The rules, regulations, and laws governing privacy and access to health-related information vary and change frequently. Privacy and confidentiality are protected by public interest groups and in some nations by privacy commissioners; the safeguards can affect epidemiological research requiring access to personal, private information. The concepts are increasingly important in situations where epidemiologists require access to data in medical and other records (Dicepid)Trust ; Confidence in or reliance on a person or thing.(MeSH)UMLS CUI
C0009669
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