Confidentiality

"Confidentiality" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The privacy of information and its protection against unauthorized disclosure.

Descriptor ID	D003219
MeSH Number(s)	F04.096.544.335.240 I01.880.604.473.650.500 I01.880.604.583.080 N03.706.437.650.124 N03.706.535.230
Concept/Terms	Confidentiality Confidentiality Secrecy Secrecy Privileged Communication Privileged Communication Communication, Privileged Communications, Privileged Privileged Communications Confidential Information Confidential Information Information, Confidential Privacy of Patient Data Privacy of Patient Data Data Privacy, Patient Patient Data Privacy Privacy, Patient Data

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Confidentiality".

Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities [F04]
Behavioral Sciences [F04.096]
Psychiatry [F04.096.544]
Forensic Psychiatry [F04.096.544.335]
Confidentiality [F04.096.544.335.240]
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]
Social Sciences [I01]
Sociology [I01.880]
Social Control, Formal [I01.880.604]
Human Rights [I01.880.604.473]
Patient Rights [I01.880.604.473.650]
Confidentiality [I01.880.604.473.650.500]
Jurisprudence [I01.880.604.583]
Confidentiality [I01.880.604.583.080]
Health Care [N]
Health Care Economics and Organizations [N03]
Social Control, Formal [N03.706]
Human Rights [N03.706.437]
Patient Rights [N03.706.437.650]
Confidentiality [N03.706.437.650.124]
Jurisprudence [N03.706.535]
Confidentiality [N03.706.535.230]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Confidentiality".

Confidentiality
Duty to Warn

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Confidentiality" by people in this website by year, and whether "Confidentiality" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 44 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2013

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	0	1	1
1997	0	1	1
1999	0	1	1
2000	1	0	1
2001	0	1	1
2002	0	1	1
2003	2	1	3
2006	0	2	2
2008	0	1	1
2009	0	2	2
2010	0	1	1
2012	0	2	2
2013	3	2	5
2014	0	4	4
2015	1	3	4
2016	0	1	1
2017	1	2	3
2018	0	1	1
2019	0	2	2
2020	1	1	2
2021	0	1	1
2023	1	0	1
2025	1	2	3

Below are the most recent publications written about "Confidentiality" by people in Profiles.

Chen PH, Desjardins B, Strassner B, Forghani R, Bodak R, Gichoya J, Whitfill J, Ehman EC, Wald C. Protecting Radiology Data and Devices Against Cybersecurity Threats: A Joint White Paper of the ACR and Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine. J Am Coll Radiol. 2025 Oct; 22(10):1160-1172.

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Chen PH, Desjardins B, Strassner B, Forghani R, Bodak R, Gichoya J, Whitfill J, Ehman EC, Wald C. Protecting Radiology Data and Devices Against Cybersecurity Threats: A Joint White Paper of the American College of Radiology (ACR) and Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). J Imaging Inform Med. 2026 Apr; 39(2):1052-1063.

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Palmer BW, Arias SA, Dunlap DR, Gould GE, Rahmoun MB, Boudreaux ED, Nebeker C. The ethics of proximity: Enrolling patients in emergency department hallway beds for suicide research. Acad Emerg Med. 2025 04; 32(4):454-462.

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Schildkrout B. Videos for Psychiatric Education: Could Deidentification Technology Make it Possible to Use Video Recordings of Patients for Psychiatric Education? J Nerv Ment Dis. 2024 01 01; 212(1):2-3.

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Shah C, Nachand D, Wald C, Chen PH. Keeping Patient Data Secure in the Age of Radiology Artificial Intelligence: Cybersecurity Considerations and Future Directions. J Am Coll Radiol. 2023 09; 20(9):828-835.

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Lubitz SA, Faranesh AZ, Atlas SJ, McManus DD, Singer DE, Pagoto S, Pantelopoulos A, Foulkes AS. Rationale and design of a large population study to validate software for the assessment of atrial fibrillation from data acquired by a consumer tracker or smartwatch: The Fitbit heart study. Am Heart J. 2021 08; 238:16-26.

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Young J, Nour NM, Macauley RC, Narang SK, Johnson-Agbakwu C. Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting in Girls. Pediatrics. 2020 08; 146(2).

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Silverman J. Confidentiality & conflict: can one member serve two IACUCs? Lab Anim (NY). 2020 07; 49(7):183.

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Bowe T, Hunter DG, Mantagos IS, Kazlas M, Jastrzembski BG, Gaier ED, Massey G, Franz K, Schumann C, Brown C, Meyers H, Shah AS. Virtual Visits in Ophthalmology: Timely Advice for Implementation During the COVID-19 Public Health Crisis. Telemed J E Health. 2020 09; 26(9):1113-1117.

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Sadasivam RS, Kamberi A, DeLaughter K, Phillips B, Williams JH, Cutrona SL, Ray MN, Gilbert GH, Houston TK. Secure Asynchronous Communication Between Smokers and Tobacco Treatment Specialists: Secondary Analysis of a Web-Assisted Tobacco Intervention in the QUIT-PRIMO and National Dental PBRN Networks. J Med Internet Res. 2020 05 06; 22(5):e13289.

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