Confidentiality and privacy breaches in a university hospital emergency department

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1142-1146

  Mlinek, Edward J ^a,b   Pierce, Jessica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Dept of Prev and Societal Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Confidentiality; Emergency department; Ethics; Privacy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; PROFESSIONAL SECRECY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 0030683516     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1997.tb03697.x     Document Type: Article

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