Assessment of Doctors’ Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Confidentiality in Hospital Care

Beltrán-Aroca, Cristina M.; Labella, Fernando; Font‐Ugalde, Pilar; Girela-López, Eloy

doi:10.1007/s11948-018-0078-5

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“…It is clear that large amounts of medical data may be identified, addressed, transferred, and managed during the clinical services; however, there is a key difference between disclosure of information considered as acceptable and the information identified as unacceptable (Zhang et al, 2015). Talking loudly when third persons (those accompanying the other patients in a hospital room) are around or during the surgery (near other patients) are common violations of privacy, as mentioned in the previous studies carried out regarding the hospitals (Beltran-Aroca et al, 2019). Some studies revealed that these were not often intentional (Dapaah & Senah, 2016;Elger, 2009).…”

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“…Ozata and Ozer (2017) disclosed that as a result of their work including 487 healthcare professionals that 86.9% of the participants expressed a positive opinion on the fact that Right to privacy is a rising value . Beltran-Aroca, Labella, Font-Ugalde, and Girela-Lopez (2019) studied 200 doctors and found that only about half of the participants had a sufficient level of information about basic regulatory norms on the confidentiality of patients.…”

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A Cross-Sectional Study: Patient Privacy According to Doctors and Nurses

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Confidentiality is fundamental in building trust between patients and healthcare professionals. This research aims at presenting healthcare professionals’ opinions on patient privacy, using a 5-point Likert-type scale titled “Opinion of the Healthcare Professionals on Patient Privacy,” and 262 physicians’ and 231 nurses’ opinions were evaluated. Results showed that nurses and doctors working at emergency services got higher mean scores than those working at other units. Results revealed that doctors had the highest mean score for the item “ It is important that the patient’s body is not seen by other patients and professionals during the treatment,” while nurses had the highest mean score for the item “ I approach with due care to protect privacy in the work environment.” Results of this work highlight that patient’s right to privacy constitutes one of the most significant issues to be noted by healthcare professionals.

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“…This subject presents some differentiated characteristics, so that it would be necessary to go deeper into the analysis of the professional conduct guides [15]. A theoretical training is recommended, which is based on the analysis of clinical cases in which problems related to con dentiality arising in clinical practice are posed, as well as a direct exposure to situations in which the patient's intimacy is questioned [19,20].…”

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The Role of Undegraduate Medical Students Training in Respect for Patient Confidentiality

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Background: Encouraging professional integrity is vital in providing a standard of excellence in the quality of medical care and education, promoting a culture of respect and responsibility. The main objective of this work consisted of studying the relationship of medical students with the right to intimacy of patients in Spain, specifically analysing the conditions of accessing patients’ Clinical History (CH).Methods: A questionnaire was sent by e-mail to final-year students at 41 Spanish universities. It had 14 multiple choice and closed questions framed in 3 large blocks. The first one addressed basic general knowledge issues on the right to intimacy and the obligation of confidentiality. The two remaining blocks were made up of questions directed towards evaluating the frequency with which certain requirements and steps of action related to the students in attending the patient were performed, and regarding the guarantees in accessing and handling their CH both on paper and in the Electronic Medical Record.Results: A total of 245 valid replies was considered. 67.8% of participants were women, with an average age of 24.05±3.49 years. Up to 90.6% were aware that confidentiality affected the data in CHs, although 43.3% possessed non-anonymized photocopies of patients’ clinical reports outside healthcare context, and only 49.8% of the students were always adequately identified. 59.2% accessed patients’ CHs on some occasions by using passwords of healthcare professionals and 77.2% of them did not have patients’ express consent and 71.9% accessed a CH that was not anonymised.Conclusions: The role of healthcare institutions and universities is considered to be fundamental in implementing educational measures regarding the risks and ethical and legal problems arising from the use of CHs among professionals and students. A profound study of medical ethics is needed through the analysis of clinical cases, and direct exposure to situations in which the patient’s confidentiality is questioned.

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“…This subject presents some differentiated characteristics, so that it would be necessary to go deeper into the analysis of the professional conduct guides [15]. A theoretical training is recommended, which is based on the analysis of clinical cases in which problems related to confidentiality arising in clinical practice are posed, as well as a direct exposure to situations in which the patient's privacy is questioned [19,20].…”

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The Role of Undegraduate Medical Students Training in Respect for Patient Confidentiality

Beltrán-Aroca

Ruiz-Montero

Labella

et al. 2020

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IntroductionEncouraging professional integrity is vital in providing a standard of excellence in the quality of medical care and education, promoting a culture of respect and responsibility. The main objective of this work consisted of studying the relationship of medical students with the right to privacy of patients in Spain, specifically analysing the conditions of accessing patients’ Clinical History (CH).MethodsA questionnaire was sent to final-year students at 41 Spanish universities. It had 14 multiple choice questions framed in 3 large blocks. The first one addressed basic general knowledge issues on the right to privacy and the obligation of confidentiality. The two remaining blocks were made up of questions directed towards evaluating the frequency with which certain requirements and steps of action related to the students in attending the patient were performed, and regarding the guarantees in accessing and handling their CH both on paper and in the Electronic Medical Record.ResultsA total of 245 valid replies was considered. 67.8% of participants were women, with an average age of 24.05±3.49 years. Up to 90.6% were aware that confidentiality affected the data in CHs, although 43.3% possessed non-anonymized photocopies of patients’ clinical reports outside healthcare context, and only 49.8% of the students were always adequately identified. 59.2% accessed patients’ CHs on some occasions by using passwords of healthcare professionals and 77.2% of them did not have patients’ express consent and 71.9% accessed a CH that was not anonymised.ConclusionsThe role of healthcare institutions and universities is considered to be fundamental in implementing educational measures regarding the risks and ethical and legal problems arising from the use of CHs among professionals and students. A profound study of medical ethics is needed through the analysis of clinical cases, and direct exposure to situations in which the patient’s confidentiality is questioned.

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Assessment of Doctors’ Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Confidentiality in Hospital Care

Cited by 15 publications

References 44 publications

A Cross-Sectional Study: Patient Privacy According to Doctors and Nurses

A Cross-Sectional Study: Patient Privacy According to Doctors and Nurses

The Role of Undegraduate Medical Students Training in Respect for Patient Confidentiality

The Role of Undegraduate Medical Students Training in Respect for Patient Confidentiality

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