Something about these advance directives seems to spook people -- they're so explicit about disability, incapacity, death itself.
Serious adverse events (SAEs) were recorded throughout the study and were defined as events that were life-threatening, required hospitalisation or prolongation of hospitalisation, or resulted in disability, incapacity, or death.
SAEs are generally defined as any medical occurrence that is life-threatening, requires or prolongs hospital admission, results in disability, incapacity or death 65, 66. ADs and death will be evaluated separately.
When disability or incapacity is determined justly, paternalism allows able members of society to provide the less able with a quality of life, a level of human dignity, and relief from suffering that they cannot provide for themselves.
Serious AEs were defined as 'any adverse event that resulted in death, was immediately life-threatening, resulted in persistent or clinically significant disability or incapacity, required hospitalization, or was deemed serious for any other reason' [7].
No serious adverse events (such as permanent disability or incapacity, life-threatening medical conditions, or deaths) and no HIV infections occurred among study participants.
A SAE was defined per protocol as any untoward medical occurrence that was fatal, life-threatening, required hospitalisation, led to disability or incapacity, or was judged by investigator's as being medically important enough to be reported as serious.
Serious adverse events (SAEs) were defined as any adverse event resulting in death, life threatening, requiring hospitalization, resulting in disability or incapacity, or any other event which required intervention to prevent such outcomes.
Serious adverse events (SAEs) were defined as any adverse event resulting in death, life threatening, requiring hospitalization, resulting in disability or incapacity or congenital anomaly or birth defect, or any other event which required intervention to prevent such outcomes.
A serious adverse event was defined as one that resulted in: death or was life threatening; hospitalization or a prolongation of hospitalization; a congenital abnormality or birth defect; a persistent or significant disability or incapacity; or was judged by the investigator to be serious.
Results in persistent or significant disability or incapacity.
