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PubMed1979

The nature of confidentiality.

This paper examines confidentiality and its nature and analyses the guidelines laid down by the Hippocratic Oath as well as the British and World Medical Associations for maintaining such confidentiality between doctor and patient. There are exceptions to practically any code of rules and this is true also for confidentiality. Some of these exceptions make it appear that very little is confidential. The three values implicit in confidentiality would seem to be privacy, confidence and secrecy. Each of these values is discussed and developed in this paper. In conclusion, the question is suggested that maybe in the face of death, doctor and patient need to re-examine the pre-suppositions of privacy, confidence and secrecy on which the confidential relationship is based.

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PubMed1979

Role definition and confidentiality in the drug treatment process.

This national survey found that responses to confidentiality boundaries were determined by role definition. The extent to which confidentiality was viewed as a necessity depended upon the job that the individual held. Those individuals dealing with the drug abuser from an apprehension and corrections standpoint tended to see confidentiality in a limited sense, feeling that it pertained only to background material and medical records. Those in counseling positions saw confidentiality in much broader terms, in both its scope of protection and importance to the counseling situation.

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PubMed1978

Toward assuring confidentiality of records in large-scale assessment programs.

EPSDT, or any similar national health program, will spawn multiple records on millions of children and adults. Multiple providers will need to share more data to provide quality care. Maintaining privacy of child/parent records, avoiding the dangers of labeling, controlling the life of records and insuring their appropriate demise exacerbate record maintenance problems. Principles of record-keeping confidentiality are proposed.

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PubMed1979

Medicaid audit: crisis in confidentiality and the patient-psychiatrist relationship.

The authors describe their experience with a routine Medicaid audit and discuss the damage such a procedure can do to the trust between psychiatrists and patients, confidentiality, doctors' reputations, transference reactions, and patients' own emotional states. The authors point out that these crucial issues have broad implications because of the possibility of passage of national health insurance legislation.

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PubMed1979

Meningococcal infections during infancy: confidential inquiries into 10 deaths.

The first 10 deaths from meningococcal infections in children aged under 2 years that were reported to a DHSS multicentre study were reviewed. Confidential inquiries were made of the parents, family doctors, health visitors, and hospital staff concerned with each case, and management was discussed with a paediatrician and pathologist. Diagnosis and treatment were often delayed because doctors did not realise the importance of the purpuric rash. One child died at home, and by the time they were admitted to hospital all the remaining nine were shocked and needed resuscitation. Prodromal symptoms, mainly changes in behaviour, preceded the rash in all cases. These prodromal symptoms should arouse the suspicion of septicaemia and prompt a search for petechiae so that early effective treatment may be started.

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PubMed1979