Articles Tagged With: disclosure
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Ethical Obligations to Study Participants if Findings Are of Unknown Significance
The average person carries more than 500,000 rare or novel genetic variants, thousands of which might be identified during a genomics research study. The question is whether, and how, people should be told about any of these findings.
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Waiting for Outcomes of Legal Challenges Unwise
Two healthcare attorneys advise medical facilities to proceed as though the rule requiring the disclosure of secret negotiated rates will go forward as planned.
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Hospital to Pay $2.2 Million for Allowing Reality Show to Breach Privacy
In a scathing indictment of hospital collusion with reality television, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has reached a $2.2 million settlement with New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City for what OCR says was the “egregious” disclosure of two patients’ protected health information to film crews and staff during the filming of “NY Med,” an ABC reality show featuring real-life trauma cases at the hospital.
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Disclosing medical errors to children is usually the right move
The medical community has embraced the concept of disclosing medical errors to patients promptly and honestly, but there is still some question about how to handle pediatric patients. Should you tell a child that you made a mistake? If so, how?