“Under no circumstances should you break the obligation you have to respect a patient’s confidentiality. “Author warrant and undertake: That their article does not contain Clinical Confidential Material, or that any Clinical Confidential Material has been anonymised in such a comprehensive way that patients reading about themselves in a paper or listening to a recording of a presentation or discussion, would not be able to identify themselves.” Examples of printed statements included in conference programmes From the 48 th Congress (Prague) IPA PRAGUE CONGRESS 2013 CONFIDENTIAL SESSION DECLARATION I, {Insert your name here}, a participant in the Congress session {Insert title of session here} hereby give my consent to abide by the IPA’s Ethical Principle on patient confidentiality relating to the material presented or discussed in the above-named session. I will respect the confidentiality at all times of any material relating to patients discussed or presented during this session. Signature Date From the 50th Congress (Buenos Aires) 50TH CONGRESS OF THE IPA – CONFIDENTIALITY ANNOUNCEMENT BY CHAIR OF ALL SESSIONS
To: Chairs of all Sessions. Please read out the words below and ask someone to sign to witness it. Then please leave this sheet on the table.
ANNOUNCEMENT BY CHAIR OF ALL SESSIONS: DECLARATION OF CONFIDENTIALITY I ask the audience to respect the complete confidentiality of any clinical material that might be referred to by any presenter, and I would remind you that when you bought a ticket for this Congress you agreed to keep confidential any such material that you see or hear. If any clinical material is being presented and discussed and you think you recognise the identity of the patient, you should protect the patient’s confidentiality by quietly leaving the remainder of that session.
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