The duty to warn and clinical ethics: Legal and ethical aspects of confidentiality and HIV/AIDS

HEC Forum

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 313-326

  Säfken, Christian ^a   Frewer, Andreas ^b  

^a Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL PROCEDURE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL SECRECY; PSYCHOTHERAPIST ATTITUDE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE;

CONFIDENTIALITY; DUTY TO WARN; ETHICS, CLINICAL; GERMANY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS;

EID: 38949175435     PISSN: 09562737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10730-007-9051-4     Document Type: Review

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