Shouldn’t Confidentiality Transcend Death?

Confidentiality and death.

The duty of confidentiality in the normal doctor-patient relationship is well recognized. However, the duty of confidentiality between the pathologist who performs the autopsy and the requesting authorities and the next-of-kin is not as clearly spelt out. This article discusses the problems faced by the pathologist with regards to hospital and medico-legal autopsies in Malaysia. A proposed ethi...

Confidentiality in end-of-life and after-death situations.

Confidentiality is one of the foundations on which psychotherapy is built. Limitations on confidentiality in the therapeutic process have been explained and explored by many authors and organizations. However, controversy and confusion continue to exist with regard to the limitations on confidentiality in situations where clients are considering their options at the end of life and after a clie...

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Data Confidentiality

When releasing data to the public, data disseminators typically are required to protect the confidentiality of survey respondents’ identities and attribute values. Removing direct identifiers such as names and addresses generally is not sufficient to eliminate disclosure risks, so that data must be altered before release to limit the risks of unintended disclosures. When intense data alteration...