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Health privacy The release or divulgence of information by an entity to persons or organisations outside of that entity
Research ethics A formal statement about a person’s or institution’s financial relationship with a company or other commercial enterprise, by means of employment, consultancy, or through ownership of stock, or other significant equity

disclosure

Research ethics A formal statement about a person's or institution's financial relationship with a company or other commercial enterprise, by means of employment, consultancy, or through ownership of stock, or other significant equity. See Conflict of interest, Nondisclosure, Self-disclosure.

dis·clo·sure

(dis-klō'zhŭr)

Communicating confidential patient information to others in accordance with legal guidelines.
Synonym(s): release of information.

dis·clo·sure

(dis-klō'zhŭr)

Communicating confidential patient information to others in accordance with legal guidelines.
Synonym(s): release of information.

disclosure,

n a release of information.

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Responsible Parties

Given that a universally accepted, objective standard for "full" disclosure doesn't exist, can we simply assume that more disclosure is always better than less disclosure?

Full disclosure vs. effective disclosure: as a guiding principle for financial reporting, "full disclosure" is being overtaken by "effective disclosure."

The study was based on 36 in-depth interviews with recent mortgage customers and testing of disclosure forms with 819 mortgage customers.

FTC: current mortgage disclosures inadequate

Disclosure of confidential information to persons or entities outside the United States will require written client notification and permission, even if the information will be going to persons within the same firm.

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This category would also include disclosure and quantification of payments and benefits (including perquisites) payable on termination or change-in-control.

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Curiously, for the healing professions, this aspect of disclosure is frequently overlooked in the obsession with liability.

Full disclosure and apology--an idea whose time has come

Additional disclosure of facts relevant to, or positions taken with respect to, issues involving any of the items set forth below is unnecessary for purposes of reducing any income tax understatement under Sec.

IRS releases 2005 guidelines for "adequate disclosure"

Finally, if the company intends to rely on an opinion or advice for the good faith and reasonable cause exception to penalties, the advice should not contain a disclosure asserting that the advice cannot be used for the purpose of avoiding penalties.

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To make this decision, the SEC staff relies in part on one of the most important disclosure vehicles: the adviser's Form ADV.

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A disclosure is the act or process of revealing or uncovering information.

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These revisions to the public disclosure tables do not affect the data collection and reporting requirements applicable to lenders subject to Regulation C; the revised disclosure tables merely show the format that will be used by the federal financial regulatory agencies for public disclosure of the data collected and reported by lenders.