The Appropriate Way to Maintain Patient Confidentiality Is to ____

question 44

Multiple Choice

The appropriate way to maintain patient confidentiality is to ____.

• A) repeat the information over the phone to make sure that you understood it correctly
• B) leave a confidential message on the physician's desk for his attention
• C) tell the physician the information in the hallway between patients
• D) put the message in a file folder marked "Confidential" and place the folder on the physician's desk
• E) tell the patient you cannot take confidential information over the telephone

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