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AMA Manual of Style (10th edition ed.) : A Guide for Authors and Editors

AMA Manual of Style Committee

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
Mar 2007
Print ISBN-13:
9780195176339
Published to AMA Manual of Style:
Apr 2009
DOI:
10.1093/jama/9780195176339.001.0001
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Patients' Rights to Privacy and Anonymity

Chapter:
Ethical and Legal Considerations
Author(s):

Annette Flanagin

Privacy is a state or condition of limited access to matters of a personal nature, including but not limited to personal information, as well as an individual’s right to control such access. When individuals grant others some form of access to themselves (eg, during a patient-clinician encounter), the individuals are exercising their right to privacy, but they are not waiving this right. Thus, a loss of privacy depends on the kinds or amount of access, who has access, through what means, and to which aspect of a person. Historically, medical journals have taken steps to protect patients' rights to privacy

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