The evaluation and intervention of persons with dysphagia represents a significant percentage of speech-language pathologists' caseloads in medical settings. Because of its overtly medical nature, there has been considerable focus dealing with the direct physical health aspects of dysphagia management. This article argues that the use of the World Health Organization's International Classificat...

Background Informed consent forms must be clear and include all the necessary information of the possible risks, benefits and complications of the procedure needing consent to. Thus, the form should not include illegible handwriting, medical jargons and abbreviations. Ethically, it should be obtained by a higher ranked physician [1]. In a thirteenweek audit conducted in a Dublin hospital, we ob...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court, after adopting the doctrine of the objective (reasonable) patient standard, expanded it in bold and innovative ways over nearly four decades, until the Wisconsin legislative and executive branches drastically reversed this course. The saga has implications for other jurisdictions considering adoption or expansion of the objective patient standard doctrine.

[This corrects the article on p. 262 in vol. 8, PMID: 27413357.].

Informed consent is required for any medical procedure although the situations in which it is given are beset by uncertainties and indeterminacies. These make medicolegal scrutiny of such situations very difficult. Although some people find the decision in the Sidaway case incomprehensible because of its continuing regard for a 'professional practice standard' in informed consent, I will argue ...

BACKGROUND Although the amount of detail in informed consent documents has increased over time and the documents have therefore become very long, there is little research on whether longer informed consent documents actually result in (1) better informed research subjects or (2) higher consent rates. We therefore conducted an add-on randomized controlled trial to the Takashima Study, a prospect...