《医学院校研究生英语读与写（第四版）》 课件 Unit 5 Text B When Doctors Pick Up the Pen—Patient-Doctor Confidentiality Breaches in Publishing.pptx

医学院校研究生英语读与写(第四版）首都医科大学应用语言学系English for Master Students in Medical UniversitiesDepartment of Applied Linguistics Capital Medical UniversityUnit Five Text B When Doctors Pick Up the Pen— Patient-Doctor Confidentiality Breaches in PublishingOutline Background informationPatient consent and confidentiality in publishing When publishing personal information about identifiable living patients, a signed copy of patient consent permission form is usually required. Authors should seek the patients consent to publication before submitting any article. You may show the patient the version of the article that you are submitting and, if they give permission for publication, please ask them (or, as appropriate, their next of kin) to sign the form. Background informationPatient consent and confidentiality in publishing Any article that contains personal medical information about an identifiable living individual requires the patients explicit consent before publishing. The patient needs to sign the consent form, which requires the patient to have read the article. If the patient has not seen a final version of the manuscript to be submitted, the form must be amended to make clear what the patient has seen and that they have agreed to publication without having seen the final version of the manuscript.?Background informationPatient consent and confidentiality in publishing If consent cannot be obtained because the patient cannot be traced, then publication will be possible only if the information can be sufficiently anonymised. Anonymisation means that neither the patient nor anyone else could identify the patient. A consequence of any anonymisation is likely to be the loss of information/evidence.??Such anonymisation might, at an extreme, involve making the authors of the article anonymous.…Global analysis of the text The text emphasizes the importance of protecting patient confidentiality in publications. First, the author explains the example of a conflict between patient