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True/False
1. Doctors duty to maintain confidentiality is legislated 2. Doctors must provide information to police enquiries 3. Emergency departments are intrinsically private |
1. True Privacy Act 2000 (Aus)
2. False. Only with patient consent (except in some exceptions) 3. False. Probably more breaches of privacy than in Rupert Murdoch's News of the World! Dunn p374 |
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Exceptions to maintain privacy include all EXCEPT
1. Crimes committed can be reported to police 2. Notifiable/venereal disease 3. Adolescent living at home- health info given to parents 4. Child abuse |
3. Adolescent health info is a controversial area, respect of the adolescent's wishes should be considered before disclosing to parents.
Cameron p772 |
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Exceptions to maintain privacy include all EXCEPT
1. Subpoenas from courts 2. Verbal consent from patients to provide written report 3. Impaired medical practitioner 4. Firearms licence holders considered at risk of crimes/mental health issues |
2. Written signed witnessed consent should always occur- best through hospital legal department, never "on the day of care".
Dunn 374 |
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Privacy breaches frequent in all the following EXCEPT
1. Celebrities/famous cases 2. Longer stays in emergency departments 3. Whiteboards and verbal bedside handovers 4. Triage room care |
Sorry, there are not any low risk areas in emergency medicine, risk must be reduced for all patients at all times.
Cameron 771, Dunn 374 |
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Ethical reporting overrides privacy for all the following EXCEPT
1. Elder abuse 2. Risk of crime to be committed by a pt. 3. Domestic Violence 4. Communicable diseases 5. Enquiries from Next of Kin |
5. NOK should not be given information without the consent of the pt. (unless the are unable to give or withold consent)
Cameron 772 |
