ArticleJournal of medical ethics2003
Confidentiality and the duties of care.
Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Authorization to Disclose: How Occupational Physicians Interpret Confidentiality in Return-to-Work Negotiations.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Privacy preservation in blockchain-based healthcare data sharing: A systematic review.Peer-to-peer networking and applications · 2025Review
- Keeping medical information safe and confidential: a qualitative study on perceptions of Israeli physicians.Israel journal of health policy research · 2024Article
- Ethics in Clinical Orthopedic Surgery.Indian journal of orthopaedics · 2023Review
- Physicians' Knowledge, Perceptions, and Attitudes Related to Patient Confidentiality and Data Sharing.International journal of general medicine · 2021Article
- The risks of absolute medical confidentiality.Science and engineering ethics · 2013Article
- Procedure versus process: ethical paradigms and the conduct of qualitative research.BMC medical ethics · 2012Article
- Confidentiality: concealing "things shameful to be spoken about".The virtual mentor : VM · 2012Article
- Confidentiality.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2008Review
- Legal and ethical considerations in processing patient-identifiable data without patient consent: lessons learnt from developing a disease register.Journal of medical ethics · 2007Article
- Concerns over confidentiality may deter adolescents from consulting their doctors. A qualitative exploration.Journal of medical ethics · 2006Article
- Sharing patient data: competing demands of privacy, trust and research in primary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2005Article
- Public attitudes towards the use of primary care patient record data in medical research without consent: a qualitative study.Journal of medical ethics · 2004Article
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Abstract
Doctors have an ethical and legal duty to respect patient confidentiality. We consider the basis for this duty, looking particularly at the meaning and value of autonomy in health care. Enabling patients to decide how information about them is disclosed is an important element in autonomy and helps patients engage as active partners in their care. Good quality data is, however, essential for research, education, public health monitoring, and for many other activities essential to provision of health care. We discuss whether it is necessary to choose between individual rights and the wider public interest and conclude that this should only rarely be necessary. The paper makes some recommendations on practical steps which could help ensure that good quality information is available for work which benefits society and the public health, while still enabling patients' autonomy to be respected.
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