AMA Code of Medical Ethics' Opinions on Quarantine and Physician Duty to Treat
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15744356 |
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| Authors | AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 717-718 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The AMA Journal of Ethic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2376-6980 • E-ISSN: 2376-6980 |
| Publisher | American Medical Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1001/virtualmentor.2010.12.9.coet1-1009 |
| PMID | 23186877 |
| OpenAlex | W4246039227 |
| Language | EN |
Opinion 2.25 – The Use of Quarantine and Isolation as Public Health Interventions Quarantine and isolation to protect the population’s health potentially conflict with the individual rights of liberty and self-determination. The medical profession, in collaboration with public health colleagues, must take an active role in ensuring that those interventions are based on science and are applied according to certain ethical considerations. To this end, the medical profession should
Duty · Environmental health · Ethical code · Family medicine · Isolation (microbiology · Medical ethics · Medical profession · Political science · Population · Psychological intervention · Public health · Public health interventions · Quarantine · Ethics in medical practice · Healthcare cost, quality, practices · Law · Medicine · Nursing
| Highly cited | No |
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