Duty to Warn
"Duty to Warn" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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.
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D017007
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| MeSH 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
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Duty to Warn" by people in Profiles.
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Kirschen MP, Friedlander JA. Grounded for an ethical dilemma: disequilibrium in a commercial airline pilot. Continuum (Minneap Minn). 2012 Oct; 18(5 Neuro-otology):1158-62.
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Fox PK. Commentary: so the pendulum swings--making sense of the duty to protect. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2010; 38(4):474-8.
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Melton GB. Ethical judgments amid uncertainty: dilemmas in the AIDS epidemic. Couns Psychol. 1991 Oct; 19(4):561-5.
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Gray JN, Melton GB. The law and ethics of psychosocial research on AIDS. Neb Law Rev. 1985; 64(4):637-88.