If a surgeon hurriedly wheels your patient from the Intensive Care Unit to the operation theatre, refuses to let you go inside and see him, and wants your signature on the consent form for “an emergency operation to save his life”, it is likely that your patient is already dead. The ...
By accepting optional cookies, you consent to the processing of your personal data - including transfers to third parties. Some third parties are outside of the European Economic Area, with varying standards of data protection. See our privacy policy for more information on the use of your perso...
Treat with care: the right to informed consent for medical treatment of persons with mental impairments in Australiadoi:10.1080/1323238x.2017.1314808McSherry, BernadetteWaddington, LisaAustralian Journal of Human Rights
One of the most controversial questions that arose during negotiations on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons (CRPD) concerned whether or not health interventions could ever be performed without the recipient's consent. This is particularly important in relation to persons with seve...
The inclusion criteria of the study were patients being 18 years old or above, and giving informed consent before participation in the study. Patients undergoing other intraocular procedures, in addition to cataract extraction, were excluded from the study. Likewise, patients with cancer or severe ...
Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participate Not applicable. Consent for publication Not applicable. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. The Department of Health Care Management receives research funding from a multitude of public or non-profit ...
By accepting optional cookies, you consent to the processing of your personal data - including transfers to third parties. Some third parties are outside of the European Economic Area, with varying standards of data protection. See our privacy policy for more information on the use of your perso...
Operations under the age of eighteen are prohibited, and from the ages of eighteen to twenty, parental consent must be sought. The Medical Council stated that it wanted to increase the quality of sex change surgeries.6Much of this was in response to castrations that doctors had performed on...
All participants signed an informed consent form prior to participation. This report follows the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials involving AI (CONSORT-AI)22 and Best Practices for Machine Learning to Assess Surgical Expertise.23 The trial protocol and statistical analysis plan are available ...
SALTIRE = Scottish Aortic Stenosis and Lipid Lowering Trial, Impact on Regression; SALTIRE II = Study Investigating the Effect of Drugs Used to Treat Osteoporosis on the Progression of Calcific Aortic Stenosis; SEAS = Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis; Vpeak = peak aortic valve velocity....