The principle of patient autonomy determines that the patient or their proxy should be in possession of relevant information before determining the appropriate course of action.
The highest performers of all were those in a moderately regulated environment who also felt a high degree of autonomy, as determined by their responses to a single statement: "My job permits me to decide on my own how to go about doing the work".
Largely sympathetic to the Lithuanian desire for autonomy and determined to create a strong, central royal power, Casimir clashed with the Polish magnates, large landowners who had dominated the earlier Jagiellon reigns, by granting extensive and exclusive rights and privileges to the gentry in order to gain their political and financial support for his active foreign policy.
Sample items include "The work I do is very important to me (meaning)"; "I am confident about my ability to do my job (competence)"; "I have significant autonomy in determining how I do my job (self-determination)"; and "I have a great deal of control over what happens in my department (impact)".
A simple shift toward allowing people autonomy to determine how their gender is expressed and recorded is gaining momentum.
Most normal central-banking functions are fulfilled by the Bank of Canada, which has substantial autonomy in determining monetary policy.
Undue restrictions on the right to abortion, Ginsburg wrote, violate "a woman's autonomy to determine her life's course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature".
Abortion rights, Ginsburg went on, hinge "on a woman's autonomy to determine her life's course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature".
As the financial crisis worsened, Bernanke worked more closely with Paulson, who, after becoming Treasury Secretary, in June, 2006, had established considerable autonomy in determining the Bush Administration's economic policy.
But, as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg observed not long ago, abortion rights "center on a woman's autonomy to determine her life's course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature".
