Law enforcement information gathering in the emergency department: Legal and ethical background and practical approaches

In the course of legal investigations, law enforcement officers may enlist emergency department (ED) personnel to gather information or forensic evidence, often with the intent of building cases against a patient. These situations create ethical conflicts between the emergency physician's oblig...

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Autores principales: Simon, Jeremy R., Derse, Arthur R., Marco, Catherine A., Allen, Nathan G., Baker, Eileen F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Ethics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9972077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36865389
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/emp2.12914
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description In the course of legal investigations, law enforcement officers may enlist emergency department (ED) personnel to gather information or forensic evidence, often with the intent of building cases against a patient. These situations create ethical conflicts between the emergency physician's obligations to the patient and society. This paper provides an overview of the ethical and legal considerations in ED forensic evidence collection and the general principles that emergency physicians should apply in these situations.
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spelling pubmed-99720772023-03-01 Law enforcement information gathering in the emergency department: Legal and ethical background and practical approaches Simon, Jeremy R. Derse, Arthur R. Marco, Catherine A. Allen, Nathan G. Baker, Eileen F. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open Ethics In the course of legal investigations, law enforcement officers may enlist emergency department (ED) personnel to gather information or forensic evidence, often with the intent of building cases against a patient. These situations create ethical conflicts between the emergency physician's obligations to the patient and society. This paper provides an overview of the ethical and legal considerations in ED forensic evidence collection and the general principles that emergency physicians should apply in these situations. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9972077/ /pubmed/36865389 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/emp2.12914 Text en © 2023 The Authors. JACEP Open published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American College of Emergency Physicians. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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