Healthcare Systems Ethic & Legal Coordination

Which ethical principle in medicine should be prioritized when obtaining informed consent before sharing a patient's confidential information?

• Justice

• Beneficence

• Autonomy

• Non-maleficence

Disclosing a patient's confidential information without their authorization primarily violates which of the following ethical principles in medicine:

• Beneficence

• Non-maleficence

• Autonomy

• Justice

Which of the following historical documents laid the foundations for ethics in medical research involving human beings after World War II?

• Hippocratic Oath

• Nuremberg Code

• Declaration of Helsinki

• Belmont Report

A doctor who performs a procedure without the patient's consent is primarily violating the principle of:

• Non-maleficence

• Beneficence

• Autonomy

• Justice

The Nuremberg Codes established in 1947 are currently applied, except to

• 1. Ethical codes in Healthcare Systems

• 1. Holistic Medicine

• 1. Informed Consent

• 1. All of the above

A doctor requests a lumbar puncture for a patient suspected of having meningitis. He requests the test for the wrong patient, but 10 minutes later realizes his mistake and requests the lumbar puncture for the correct patient. In this case, the scenario described is:

• 1. Negligence (Act)

• 1. Medical malpractice

• 1. Breach of duty

• 1. Detected accident (Near Miss)

Which legislation prevents physicians from referring patients to other services in which they have established financial or family relationships?

• 1. False Claim Act

• 1. Stark Law

• 1. Anti-Kickback

• 1. All of the above.

A medical provider who cannot submit a claim to CMS and therefore cannot be financially reimbursed for a service provided means that the provider committed what?

• Abuse and Fraud to CMS

• The provider is penalized by the Exclusion Law

• Violation of the False Claims Act

• a and b

Surrogacy is an assisted reproductive technology (ART) practice in which a person becomes pregnant, carries, and gives birth to a child on behalf of another couple/person, who are the intended parents.

• True

• False

There are no medical indications for surrogacy when same-sex couples (male/female) or single individuals wish to have children.

• True

• False