5 - Legal

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Across
  1. 4. health insurance portability and accountability act; US legislation that provides data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information.
  2. 5. The action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation
  3. 10. “Do no harm.”
  4. 11. A published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation
  5. 15. An official appointed to investigate individuals' complaints against maladministration, especially that of public authorities
  6. 18. Acting in the patient’s best interest
  7. 19. The authority to act for another person in specified or all legal or financial matters
  8. 21. A written statement of a person's wishes regarding medical treatment, made to ensure those wishes are carried out should the person be unable to communicate them to a doctor
Down
  1. 1. Improper, illegal, or negligent professional activity or treatment, especially by a medical practitioner, lawyer, or public official
  2. 2. A written statement detailing a person's desires regarding their medical treatment in circumstances in which they are no longer able to express informed consent, especially an advance directive
  3. 3. Failure to take proper care in doing something
  4. 6. Respecting a patient’s right to make their own decisions
  5. 7. A real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, especially unfair treatment
  6. 8. Permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with full knowledge of the possible risks and benefits
  7. 9. The action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or libel
  8. 12. Legally responsible
  9. 13. Cruel and violent treatment of a person or animal
  10. 14. Fair distribution of resources and treatment
  11. 16. (ROI) form which needs to be signed in order for patient information to be released to an external provider, caregiver or to anyone other than the patient
  12. 17. Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment; a medical order indicating a patient's wishes regarding life-sustaining treatment.
  13. 20. The intentional and offensive touching of another person without their consent
  14. 21. A threat of attack
  15. 22. Moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity