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Descriptor English: Duty to Warn
Descriptor Spanish: Deber de Advertencia
Descriptor deber de advertir
Entry term(s) deber de informar
Scope note: Obligación de los profesionales sanitarios de romper la CONFIDENCIALIDAD del paciente para informar a terceras personas respecto del riesgo de ser agredidas o de contraer una infección grave.
Descriptor Portuguese: Responsabilidade pela Informação
Descriptor French: Obligation de mise en garde
Entry term(s): Warn, Duty to
to Warn, Duty
Tree number(s): F01.829.401.046.800.200
F04.096.544.335.240.270
I01.880.604.583.080.134.800.200
I01.880.604.583.080.270
N03.706.535.230.270
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017007
Scope note: A health professional's obligation to breach patient CONFIDENTIALITY to warn third parties of the danger of their being assaulted or of contracting a serious infection.
Allowable Qualifiers: ES ethics
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PX psychology
Previous Indexing: Confidentiality (1976-1991)
Public MeSH Note: 92
History Note: 92
Related: Confidentiality MeSH
Duty to Recontact MeSH
Mandatory Reporting MeSH
DeCS ID: 30148
Unique ID: D017007
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1991/07/26
Revision Date: 2012/07/03
Duty to Warn - Preferred
Concept UI M0025842
Scope note A health professional's obligation to breach patient CONFIDENTIALITY to warn third parties of the danger of their being assaulted or of contracting a serious infection.
Preferred term Duty to Warn
Entry term(s) Warn, Duty to
to Warn, Duty



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