The State Board of Education meeting was held on Thursday, September 18, 2014, in the Grimes State Office Building, State Board Room, Des Moines, Iowa. The following State Board members were present: Charlie Edwards, Mike Knedler, Rosie Hussey, Mike May, Mike Bearden, Diane Crookham-Johnson, Brooke Axiotis, Mary Ellen Miller, Angela English, and Hannah Rens. Iowa Department of Education staff m...

In the wake of scandals about the unauthorised retention of organs following postmortem examination, the issue of valid consent (or the lack of it) has returned to the forefront. Emphasis is put on obtaining explicit authorisation from the patient or family prior to any medical intervention, including those involving the dead. Although the controversies in the UK arose from the retention of hum...

OBJECTIVES This study examined sociodemographic, smoking and psychosocial characteristics associated with consent to participate in a smoking cessation trial for socially disadvantaged smokers. DESIGN Baseline data were collected prior to seeking consent for the Call it Quits, a randomised controlled trial. SETTING An Australian social and community service organisation. Sociodemographic, s...

People's decision to join an organ donor registry and have a discussion with family about their organ donation preference increases the likelihood that their family will consent to donation of their organs. This study explores the effectiveness of three interventions compared to a control condition to increase individual consent (registering and discussing donation wishes) for organ donation. A...

The past 15 years have been marked by an increasingly stringent regulatory atmosphere regarding the administration of ECT, leading to delays in treatment and declines in usage. Regulatory changes requiring judicial intervention in clinical decisions are driven by the notion that only the courts can provide adequate due process protections when legal rights and clinical need conflict. We retrosp...

The association between completion of primary dipht eria, tetanus and pertussis, measles, mumps, and rubella and polio immunisation courses in Liverpool and five sociodemographic factors, namely the child's sex, position in the family, family type, migration into Liverpool since birth, and local deprivation was examined. Only 68% of children were fully immunised by their second birthday. The im...

The purpose of this study is to describe the process health care that involves a triad legal subjects, namely doctors, patients, and hospitals. relationship between three subjects placed in standard contract called informed consent. This research method uses quantitative approach, which measured by statistics. Necessary carry out medical actions, are doctors or hospitals, as drafters agreements...