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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Main Authors: Lucassen, A, Parker, M
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: 2004