Privacy Refers to the Right to Be Left Alone While

question 17

Multiple Choice

Privacy refers to the right to be left alone while confidentiality is the _____.

• A)obligation of the healthcare provider to protect patient information
• B)principle that ethics, moral, and values supercedes privacy
• C)provider's right to control personal information about patients
• D)theory that patient records should be accessible to anyone

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Definitions:

Disjunctive Syllogism

A form of reasoning wherein from two statements, one necessarily follows as a conclusion if the other is ruled out.

Unstated Premise

An implicit assumption or premise that is not explicitly mentioned but is required for an argument to hold.

Disjunctive Premise

A type of logical statement that presents two or more options in such a way that if one is true, the others must be false.

Negative Proposition

A statement or assertion that denies something, especially a predicate of a subject.