Physicians can approach patients’ incarceration history in ways that mitigate stigma and strengthen therapeutic alliance.

Disparities in children’s mental health care could be addressed through expansion of school-based programs via passage of the Mental Health in Schools Act.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics' opinion on confidentiality of patient disclosure and circumstances under which it may be breached.

A medical school project in which students' genetic information is the subject of study raises many ethical questions.

An overview of methods by which electronic health records can preserve the confidentiality and security, integrity, and availability of patient data.

Instead of trying to reduce the number of people who have access to a patient's medical record by quarantining information, hospitals should explain the current meaning of confidentiality to patients as part of the informed consent process.

A requirement to uphold the confidentiality of information shared in the physician-patient relationship is a central tenet of medical professionalism that, while at risk and undermined in various ways in modern medicine, has been consistently endorsed from the time of Hippocrates.

Because maintaining strict confidentiality is often untenable, or even illegal, determining the extent of protections in the postmortem context ultimately entails a weighing of the various interests at stake.

The American Medical Association's Code of Medical Ethics' opinions on confidentiality of patient information.

A society's definitions and boundaries of confidentiality are shaped by socioeconomic context.