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All medical and healthcare practitioners have a duty of care to their patients. As part of this duty of care, practitioners are required to give sufficient information that comprehensively covers all aspects of a CT colonography examination to enable patients to provide informed consent. Information ...
Informed consent is a keystone of the surgeon-patient relationship rooted in the ethical principles of autonomy and beneficence. Many stakeholders (e.g., healthcare institutions, legislators, the courts, state and federal regulators, and professional societies) contribute to an informed consent process...
Furthermore, calling the personality disorder “by its name” gives meaning to the suffering of the affected individuals, and lowers their feelings of inadequacy. EE also pointed out the need for the mental health system to communicate and to collaborate with other services, e.g., community ...
understanding of epidemiologically grounded needs assessment. A freelance analyst working with another commissioning organisation stressed the importance of informal encounters with local GPs, which enabled her to demonstrate personally that she too belonged to the ‘NHS family’, shared their values and al...