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Issues of Confidentiality in Health Care

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Nursing Law and Ethics

Part of the book series: Medicolegal Library ((MEDICOLEGAL,volume 4))

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The purpose of this paper is to examine several questions that arise regarding confidentiality of information. It has been a long-standing principle among physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals that information from or about patients and information from or about colleagues should never be disclosed or discussed. This professional attitude was and is based on tradition, ethics, and law.

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  1. L. C. Greif
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  1. P.O.B. 6451, Haifa, 31063, Israel

    Amnon Carmi (Judge) (Judge)

  2. Summit Institute Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University Michlala Jerusalem, Women’s College, P.O.B. 7446, Jerusalem, Israel

    Stanley Schneider

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Greif, L.C. (1985). Issues of Confidentiality in Health Care. In: Carmi, A., Schneider, S. (eds) Nursing Law and Ethics. Medicolegal Library, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82468-5_12

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