Education Toolkits

Privacy and managing health information in general practice

Test your knowledge

Last revised: 12 Jul 2024

Test your knowledge

You have now completed the ‘Privacy and managing health information in general practice’ education kit.

Test your knowledge of key themes by answering the following questions.
 


1. Which of the 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) refer to the collection of personal information?

  • APP1, 2
  • APP 3-5
  • APP 6-9
  • APP 10, 11
  • APP 12, 13
Reveal answer

APP 6-9 refer to the collection of personal information

2. Personal information includes an individual’s (multiple apply):

  • Name and address
  • Signature
  • Contact details
  • Birth date
  • Medical records
  • ​Bank account details
Reveal answer

All of the above are considered personal information

3. True or false: The term ‘use and disclosure’ refers to patient consent being provided. ‘Use’ and ‘disclosure’ are easily defined terms?

Reveal answer

False – these are not easily defined terms

4. Which states and territories have their own legislation regulating the handling of health information, as detailed in their various sets of principles? (multiple apply)

  • ACT
  • NSW
  • NT
  • QLD
  • SA
  • TAS
  • VIC
  • WA
Reveal answer

ACT, NSW and VIC have their own legislation regulating the handling of health information

5. What are the three main types of patient consent? (multiple apply)

  • Informed consent
  • Refused consent
  • Inferred / express consent
  • Withheld consent
Reveal answer

Informed, Inferred/express and withheld are the three main types of consent

6. True or false: General practice has only a minor role to protect the privacy of patient health information?

Reveal answer

False – General practice plays a significant role in protecting the privacy of patient health information

7. How does the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) define ‘confidentiality’?

  • The obligation of people not to use private information – whether private because of its content or the context of its communication – for any purpose other than that for which it was given to them.

  • Information or opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable.

Reveal answer

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) define ‘confidentiality’ as information or opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable.

8. True or false: GPs should be wary of taking silence or a lack of objection as an indicator of consent; if there is any doubt, GPs should obtain express consent?

Reveal answer

True – if there is any doubt, GPs should obtain express consent

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