Articles for tag: deception, dishonesty, ethical, legal, lies, lyiing, risk

The Impact of Patient Dishonesty in Psychiatric Practice

In psychiatric care, the issue of patient dishonesty presents a significant challenge for mental health professionals. Definition It is important to set the ground about what ‘lying’ means. Ekman’s definition is adopted: “The act of one person intending to mislead another, deliberately, without prior notification of this purpose, and without having been explicitly asked by …

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Reading the records

The delivery of healthcare is complex business.  Often times records are compiled by large numbers of people in teams or extension of teams about a single patient. The vast majority of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are text-based. Understanding a patient’s condition(s) and needs from records is often demanding of time, effort and concentration. Overall, both …

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