Access to health care records after death: Balancing confidentiality with appropriate disclosure
Article Abstract:
People are concerned about the disclosure of information and access to health care records after death. Physicians and other health care workers should ensure that the confidentiality is preserved to the maximum level and research is required to examine expectations on continuing confidentiality after death as the patients approaching death are likely to have the most important perspective on this issue.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2007
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Stress, redeployed
Article Abstract:
The article examines the dilemma faced by medical practitioners in their care of wounded soldiers in the war on Iraq when they have to send the soldiers back to war after recovery and thus helps to redeploy them back in the stressful environment.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2007
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
How to run a successful academic practice plan
Article Abstract:
The article presents the efficiency and benefits of an academic plant besides the factors that have made it a success.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2007
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Access to dental care in Alabama for children with special needs. Early orthodontic treatment as a means to increase access for children enrolled in Medicaid in Washington state
- Abstracts: Therapeutic care increases independence. Managing inpatients who have personality disorders. Using psychosocial interventions within a high-security hospital
- Abstracts: A project to promote health awareness among firefighters. Evaluation of a sun awareness project for school children
- Abstracts: Effects of pregnancy and delivery on disease activity in multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis: The plaque and its pathogenesis
- Abstracts: Heat-related deaths during the July 1995 heat wave in Chicago. Release from prison - A high risk of death for former inmates