Clinical Practice Guidelines

AIMBI has developed recommended clinical practice guidelines for various aspects of professional duties that our members routinely perform in their organisation's workplaces.

These are to be used as a recommended framework that can be adapted for use in your particular organisation and also provided a reference when developing policies and procedures in that these document links can then be cited as the external professional peak body's standards.

We will continue to add more areas of practice to these guidelines over time and as we get requests from members for specific specialties. We would welcome any members who wish to participate on working committees developing these guidelines please contact the National President or Secretary to become involved.

Bereavement Photography Guidelines

• Along with hand-prints, foot-prints, locks of hair and ultrasound images, photographs of deceased newborns form part of the memorabilia required in the grieving process of parents and kin. Bereavement photographs are different from photographs that may be required by clinicians such as pathologists. They are not images of a gross specimen but a portrait of a family member treated in the same way as a living infant. This is a recommended guideline in the practice of bereavement photography in a healthcare organisation.

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Confidentiality Guidelines

• A patient clinical photograph forms part of the medical record and as such is subject to the same privacy, consent and storage protocols as any other medical record. This is a recommended framework in applying confidentiality in regard to the practice of patient imaging within a healthcare organisation.

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Consent for Clinical Images Guidelines

• Any photograph, artwork (drawing, sketch, painting) or video recording of a patient in whole or part is a clinical image therefore the patients needs to give consent before pictures can
  be used for most purposes. This is a recommended framework for clinical image consent in the practice of imaging within a healthcare organisation.

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Orthodontic Photography Guidelines

• These guidelines provide an outline for good clinical practice when orthodontic photographs are required. Each private practice or clinical setting will use variations on these suggestions. The aim is to achieve standardised repeatable results so that accurate pre- and post-treatment photographs are obtained. This is a recommended framework in the practice of orthodontic photography within a healthcare organisation.

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