The elements of informed consent are threshold, information, and consent.
The requirement to obtain informed consent is universal within medicine today, even though information and consent procedures vary [ 3- 7].
To enable patients to give informed consent they must receive adequate information, understand this information and consent voluntarily.
Informed consent was obtained from all participants after a three-stage information and consent process.
Written informed consent will be obtained for the child using the HREC approved Participant Information and Consent Form.
After inclusion, information and consent to participate, a PoCUS was performed.
Participants were provided information and consent forms and conducted a training and familiarization run, after which actual experiment commenced.
To obtain these data, local investigators had to send previous information and consent form to the patient.
For those who expressed an interest, a plain language statement and participant information and consent form were emailed explaining the study in more detail.
Females waiting in the registration queue were arbitrarily approached and asked to complete an anonymous questionnaire after reading the information and consent form.
All patients signed an institutionally-approved patient information and consent document.
