Do French lay people and health professionals find it acceptable to breach confidentiality to protect a patient's wife from a sexually transmitted disease?

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 414-419

  Guedj, M ^a   Munoz Sastre M T ^a   Mullet, E ^b   Sorum, P C ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ TOULOUSE JEAN JAURÈS   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d Latham Med Ped   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LETHALITY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION; PROFESSIONAL SECRECY; PSYCHOLOGIST; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPOUSE; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENTIALITY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INTENTION; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SPOUSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33644660793     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2005.012195     Document Type: Article

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