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Procedures or behaviours which place restrictions on access to certain types of information.
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A consequentialist theory claiming actions are correct if they produce the best results.
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An ethical principle that suggests above all, care providers must do no harm.
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An order which allows for decisions to be made for a person deemed incompetent, through intellectual disability, mental illness or ageing.
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An ethical principle that suggests all treatments should be for the patient's good
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Where treatment is prescribed by a doctor and administered without the patient's consent
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A behaviour by a person, organisation or state which limits the autonomy or liberty of a person for their own good.
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A breach in an owed duty of care resulting in some form of foreseeable harm.
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Enable effective and appropriate interactions between health care providers and their patients.
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A theory claiming that actions are intrinsically right or wrong and our moral duty is to perform those actions which morally right.
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The inability of a person to look after their health, safety and welfare or to manage their affairs.
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A type of treatment where treatment is administeed with the patient's consent
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The involuntary supervised isolation of a patient.
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The restriction of a person's movement by physical or mechanical means
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A method of ethical reasoning based on cases or precedents.
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An ethical principle concerning self-government or self-determination.
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A legal term used to determine if a person has understood information sufficientely to make a decision.
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An ethical principle suggesting fairness, honesty and equity in all decisions.
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In a care context, the patient's agreement to a proposed course of action
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A branch of philosophy concerned with moral principles.
