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| Ethical principles | General moral guidelines that help all healthcare team members choose actions consistent with a caring response. |
| Beneficence | Acting in the patient’s best interest by promoting well-being and preventing harm. |
| Non-maleficence | The obligation to avoid causing harm, pain, suffering, injury, or death. |
| Autonomy | Respecting patient choice through informed consent and disclosure of treatment options; closely connected with informed or express consent. |
| Fidelity | Honouring commitments, respecting patient expectations, maintaining competence, and following policies. |
| Veracity / Honesty | Being truthful with patients about diagnoses, treatment options, benefits, risks, and outcomes. |
| Justice | Treating patients fairly, appropriately, and equitably, with access to quality care. |
| Paternalism | Making decisions for a patient without explicit consent, often when provider judgment conflicts with patient choice. |
| Caring response | An ethical response that supports compassion, dignity, respect, and patient-centred care. |
| Interprofessional team | A group of professionals who work together as a unit to make decisions and provide patient care. |
| Cultural competence | An ongoing process of working effectively within the cultural context of the patient. |
| Cultural differences | Differences shaped by factors such as race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, language, geography, socioeconomic status, nationality, and education. |
| Ethical obligations | Professional duties to respect privacy, protect confidentiality, secure documentation, and share information appropriately, regardles of employment site or method of collection, storage and security of health information. |
| Sensitive information | Information requiring special protection, such as genetic, adoption, substance use, sexual health, or behavioural information. |
| Data steward | A professional responsible for protecting patient information and managing it appropriately; ensuring that patients retain control of access and disclosure of their information. |
| Patient ownership of information | The idea that information in a medical record belongs to the patient, who has rights to access, control, disclose, or keep it undisclosed. |
| Access to personal information | A data stewardship responsibility recognizing that patients have reasonable access to their health information, with limited exceptions; requires express consent. |
| Collection, use, and disclosure | A data stewardship responsibility requiring safeguards and patient education about how information may be used or shared. |
| Retention of personal health information | Storing, transferring, and disposing of health information according to applicable legislation. |
| Use of technology | The responsibility to use healthcare technology appropriately and obtain informed consent when needed. |
