Confidentiality and serious harm in genetics - preserving the confidentiality of one patient and preventing harm to relatives.
Genetics can pose special challenges to the principle of confidentiality within the health professional-patient relationship, since genetic information is by its nature both individual and familial. Most professional guidelines allow confidentiality to be broken in rare circumstances, where it will...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2004
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