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How Well Do You Know About Patient Confidentiality?

How well do you know about Patient Confidentiality?

Confidentiality is one of the fundamental duties of medical institutions in which health care providers retain a patient’s personal health information private. A violation of confidentiality happens when...

Questions: 11 | Attempts: 375 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2024

Sample Question
Your patient is in surgery. You are in the waiting room along with the patient's family members. After the doctor updates you on her condition, the family asks you what the doctor said. What do you tell the family?

Explain you must keep information confidential until you check with the patient.

Tell them that the doctor said everything will be all right.

Interpret what the doctor said but ask them to keep it confidential because of the confidentiality principle.

Interpret exactly what the doctor said with the same meaning and spirit.

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