Ethics, Privacy, and Security Flashcards
This refers to a violation, breach, or unauthorized act against a certain principle.
Infringement
This principle implies that the harm should not be disproportionate to the benefit of the treatment.
non-maleficence
This principle of the least intrusive alternative is closely associated with this principle.
Principle of legitimate infringement
This principle information privacy is adjunct to the principle.
Principle of Information-privacy and disposition
This connotes acts or personal qualities of mercy, kindness, generosity, and charity.
Beneficence
Which of the following may limit the principle of autonomy of a patient? Select all that apply.
Being a minor
Psychological Impairment
It involves balancing the benefits of treatment against the risk and costs involved.
Beneficence
“Respecting the principles of Beneficence and non-maleficence may in certain circumstances mean failing to respect a person’s autonomy”
T/F
False
This principle believes that all persons have a duty to prevent harm to other persons insofar as it lies within their power to do without undue harm to themselves.
non-maleficence
It is suggestive of altruism, love, humanity, and promoting the good of others.
Beneficence
This is a decision-making problem between two possible moral imperatives. neither of which is ambiguously acceptable or preferable
Ethical Dilemma
What are the three main aspects of health informatics ethics?
General Ethics
Informatics
Software
What principle is described by the statement “We have an obligation to respect the decisions made by our people concerning their own lives”
Autonomy
It means avoiding the causation of harm
Non-maleficence
This principle implies that the harm should not be disproportionate to the benefit of the treatment.
non-maleficence