Medical Confidentiality: Legal and Ethical Challenges in Iran

Being a matter of confidentiality, medical "secret" is an issue that physicians are aware of due to nature of their profession. Breach of confidentiality is defined as giving away a patient’s medical records by any means such as writing, telling, implying etc. According to law in Iran, med...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ali Banagozar Mohammadi, Maryam Vahabzadeh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2020-01-01
Series:International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine
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Online Access:http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/ijmtfm/article/view/27024/pdf