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. 2024 Mar 13;5(2):e13130.
doi: 10.1002/emp2.13130. eCollection 2024 Apr.

Privacy and confidentiality of emergency department patient information: Contemporary considerations and challenges

Jay M Brenner  1 , Michele Y Delpier  2 , Jeremy R Simon  3 , Joel M Geiderman  4 , Catherine A Marco  5 , John C Moskop  6 ; American College of Emergency Physicians Ethics Committee
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Privacy and confidentiality of emergency department patient information: Contemporary considerations and challenges

Jay M Brenner et al. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. .

Abstract

This article provides a brief review of moral and legal duties to respect confidentiality in emergency medicine. The article considers current challenges to confidentiality in emergency departments and proposes strategies to address them. It is offered as an update of the two-part review of confidentiality in emergency medicine in 2005 by Moskop et al published in 2005 in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

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