QuestionSBA
QuestionChoice
Healthcare professionals are not allowed to disclose confidential information to anyone that is not the patient. Unless the patient has given explicit consent to do so.
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c
Telling a patient's test results to her husband because the patient is unavailable
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Even when a patient passes away, you must maintain patient confidentiality, you cannot disclose the cause of death.
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d
When a patient asks about the cause of death of someone who has passed away on the ward
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You would only be required to disclose information about serious communicable diseases.
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b
Disclosing information relating to the influenza infection
QuestionChoice
According to the Fraser guidelines relating to contraception and sexual health, a teenager can start contraception without parental consent if they are deemed Gillick competent.
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e
When the parents of a 15-year-old Gillick competent teenager ask if their daughter has seen you regarding oral contraception
QuestionChoice
It is your professional duty to break confidentiality when there is a threat to others.
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a
If there is a threat to others
Concept
Chapter
2693
4140
Situations in which the law obliges doctors to breach confidentiality
Topic
184
Ethics and Law
13579
For which one of the following reasons can you break patient confidentiality?
a