Accessibility versus confidentiality of information in the emergency department

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 857-860

  Ayatollahi, Haleh ^a,b   Bath, P A ^a   Goodacre, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONFIDENTIALITY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; ETHICS, INSTITUTIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 72449172457     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2008.070557     Document Type: Article

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