MEDICAL RECOMMENDATIONS

Considerations for privacy and confidentiality in adolescent health care service delivery

Canadian Paediatric SocietyPediatrics2023Official publication

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Official Canadian Paediatric Society document (2023) on “Considerations for privacy and confidentiality in adolescent health care service delivery”. A hallmark of delivering quality adolescent health care services is the provision of confidential care. Key tenets when providing confidential care for adolescents include time alone with a health care provider, maintaining privacy of health information, and securing informed consent for services without permission from a parent, guardian, or caregiver. While confidentiality is a basic principle for all health care e.

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