Does the dentist have an ethical duty to report child abuse?

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 521-523

  Sfikas, Peter M ^a,b,c  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b American College of Trial Lawyers

^c AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD ADVOCACY; DENTIST; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; LEGAL APPROACH; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORALITY; MOUTH DISEASE; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; TOOTH DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION; LEGAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD ADVOCACY; CODES OF ETHICS; DENTISTS; ETHICS, DENTAL; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; MOUTH DISEASES; TOOTH DISEASES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030118999     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.1996.0249     Document Type: Article

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