{"id":7449,"date":"2022-10-14T14:55:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T17:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdmlaw.com.br\/?p=7449"},"modified":"2022-11-23T09:56:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T12:56:15","slug":"medicos-podem-liberar-prontuarios-para-parentes-de-pessoas-falecidas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdmlaw.com.br\/en\/medicos-podem-liberar-prontuarios-para-parentes-de-pessoas-falecidas\/","title":{"rendered":"Can physicians share medical records with the family of a deceased patient?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a rule, Brazilian Medical Ethics Code establishes that physicians are forbidden to \u201creveal knowing facts due to their professional activity, except for reasonable justification, legal duty or written consentment from the patient\u201d, moreover, this rule is also applied after the patient\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2014, due to legal demands on this subject, CFM, which is a Brazilian independent agency on medical licensing and professional regulation, published the Recommendation n\u00ba 03\/2014 that lays out orientations to physicians and health institutions regarding disclosure of medical information, when claimed by the surviving partner, their heir or close family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The access to health information of a deceased patient can happen because of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Legal reason;<\/li><li>Legal duty;<\/li><li>Patient\u2019s previous and written authorisation<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;The conditions to sharing the medical information are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Documental evidence of family connection, in which close family have priority access;&nbsp;<\/li><li>The patients need to be previously informed about the possibility of denying the disclosure of their medical information.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, LGPD, which is the Brazilian General Personal Data Protection Law, regulates the processing of personal data of living people, in a way that the regulation has no manifestation regarding deceased people.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De modo geral, o C\u00f3digo de \u00c9tica M\u00e9dica estipula que \u00e9 vedado ao m\u00e9dico \u201crevelar fato de que tenha conhecimento em virtude do exerc\u00edcio de sua profiss\u00e3o, salvo por motivo justo, dever legal ou consentimento, por escrito, do paciente\u201d, inclusive ap\u00f3s falecimento. Em 2014, devido a demandas neste sentido, o CFM publicou a Recomenda\u00e7\u00e3o n\u00ba [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nao-categorizado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdmlaw.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdmlaw.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdmlaw.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdmlaw.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdmlaw.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pdmlaw.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7517,"href":"https:\/\/pdmlaw.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7449\/revisions\/7517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdmlaw.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdmlaw.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdmlaw.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdmlaw.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}