The illness concept, with its description (definition), clinical symptoms, signs and laboratory tests (criteria), and consequences (outcome), inform clinical reasoning and diagnosis.
The survey procedure and the goal of the study were explained to the students who then had the opportunity to refrain from participation without negative consequences (informed oral consent).
As a consequence, informed preferences seem more stable and enduring [34 36].
As a consequence, informed patients can start asking straight questions and engage in useful discussions with their doctors, for example, about acceptable therapy strategies.
A better understanding of falls and their potential consequences may inform both clinicians and health service planners.
Understanding this complex interplay of stress, emotion processing and the severity of FNS is relevant not only for theoretical models, but, as a consequence also inform diagnostic and therapeutic adjustments.
In the latter, TA performs a role described by Smits and Leyten (1991) as the "tracker dog" of TA [23]: as an ongoing process of identifying and analysing developments in science, technology, and innovation, anticipating their (potential) consequences, and informing or even organising discussions around them.
Given these findings, the potentially advantageous consequences of informing patients of familial DM risk may be considerable.
We therefore applied a design using two control groups rather than only one, because differences in weight development between the intervention group and the control group, and hence development of overweight, could potentially be diluted as a consequence of informing the control participants that the child was predisposed to obesity.
