Asking Consent for a Procedure

Question Asking to Inform Procedure Learning

Learning by demonstration technology holds great promise for enabling users to automate routine but time-consuming online tasks. However, correct generalization from demonstration traces presents numerous technical challenges related to limited or noisy training data. To address these challenges, we propose a framework that augments learning by demonstration through a facility for asking questi...

Beyond the informed consent procedure: continuing consent in human research.

An ethnographic field study about informed consent in hepatitis C clinical trials provides insight into how changes in protocol requirements and patient health status triggered the actions and decisions of researchers and human subjects during the conduct of these trials. U.S. federal guidelines recommend that informed consent should be conceptualized as more than a one-time event. Rather, a pr...

Consent, sectionalisation and the concept of a medical procedure.

Consent transforms an otherwise illegitimate act into a legitimate one. To be valid, however, it must be adequately informed. The legal requirement is vague and provides little assistance in predicting when it will be satisfied. This is particularly so when a patient consents to a procedure and the physician subsequently varies one of the components of that procedure. Using three legal judgment...

Is Proxy Consent for an Invasive Procedure on a Patient with Intellectual Disabilities Ethically Sufficient?

A Procedure for Design of the Axial Flow Fans