How would your policy apply in each of the cases below (e.g., are there certain people or categories of individuals with whom information regarding the condition and treatment of the patient would always, sometimes, or never be shared)? Please give support for your conclusions.
How would your policy apply in each of the cases below (e.g., are there certain people or categories of individuals with whom information regarding the condition and treatment of the patient would always, sometimes, or never be shared)? Please give support for your conclusions.
An elderly widow who lives alone is brought to the ER by a neighbor who found the woman partially conscious in the hallway of her apartment building. The neighbor tells the ER intake clerk that the patient lives alone but has a daughter who lives 200 miles away and a grandson who lives in the same town but has not seen his grandmother in 10 years. Who could the hospital notify? Is there anyone else to whom information about the patient’s condition could be disclosed? What, if anything, could the hospital tell the neighbor who brought the woman in about the patient’s condition?
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