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Descriptor English: Truth Disclosure
Descriptor Spanish: Revelación de la Verdad
Descriptor divulgación veraz
Entry term(s) divulgación de la verdad
revelación veraz
Scope note: Revelación sincera de información, específicamente cuando la información desvelada puede ser psicológicamente dolorosa ("malas noticias") para el receptor (p. ej., revelar a un paciente o a la familia de un paciente el DIAGNÓSTICO o PRONÓSTICO del paciente) o embarazosa para la persona que la revela (p. ej., revelación de errores médicos).
Descriptor Portuguese: Revelação da Verdade
Descriptor French: Révélation de la vérité
Entry term(s): Disclosure, Error
Disclosure, Truth
Disclosures, Error
Disclosures, Truth
Error Disclosure
Error Disclosures
Truth Disclosures
Tree number(s): F01.829.401.046.800
I01.880.604.583.080.134.800
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014342
Scope note: Truthful revelation of information, specifically when the information disclosed is likely to be psychologically painful ("bad news") to the recipient (e.g., revelation to a patient or a patient's family of the patient's DIAGNOSIS or PROGNOSIS) or embarrassing to the teller (e.g., revelation of medical errors).
Annotation: DISCLOSURE is also available
Allowable Qualifiers: ES ethics
Previous Indexing: Truth Disclosure (1974-2001)
Public MeSH Note: 78
History Note: 78
Related: Access to Information MeSH
Patient Rights MeSH
Professional-Patient Relations MeSH
Risk Management MeSH
DeCS ID: 14746
Unique ID: D014342
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1978/01/01
Date of Entry: 1977/04/22
Revision Date: 2015/01/09
Truth Disclosure - Preferred
Concept UI M0022056
Scope note Truthful revelation of information, specifically when the information disclosed is likely to be psychologically painful ("bad news") to the recipient (e.g., revelation to a patient or a patient's family of the patient's DIAGNOSIS or PROGNOSIS) or embarrassing to the teller (e.g., revelation of medical errors).
Preferred term Truth Disclosure
Entry term(s) Disclosure, Truth
Disclosures, Truth
Truth Disclosures
Disclosure, Error - Narrower
Concept UI M000599771
Preferred term Disclosure, Error
Entry term(s) Disclosures, Error
Error Disclosure
Error Disclosures



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