Children ≥ 12 years gave formal written consent, younger children gave spoken consent.
Someone providing their opinion is not, strictly speaking, consenting to their personal data being published under this particular piece of law.
Participants were required to be between 18 and 80 years old and be able to speak English, provide inform consent, and have DSM-IV-TR diagnostic confirmation of type I or II bipolar disorder or schizoaffective bipolar disorder (American Psychiatric Association 2000).
We included patients who provided informed consent, were between the age of 18 and 55 years, spoke German sufficiently and had a radiological determined herniated disc of the lumbal or cervical spine.
All patients provided informed written consent through Research Ethics Board-approved consent forms before study enrolment.
All patients signed informed consent and provided consent for publication.
Communities that provided signed consent for the consultation visit were then visited by study personnel who spoke with council members, community elders and other community leaders in a 1-day visit.
To be eligible for the study, patients had to be older than 18, hospitalized for an acute cardiovascular condition, able to provide informed consent, read and speak English, and responsible for self-administration of medications.
The Eligibility criteria included: patients diagnosed with bladder cancer and with the therapeutic plan of radical cystectomy; able to speak English; can provide informed consent; at least 18 years of age; may receive neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy; and may have had intravesicle chemotherapy or immunotherapy.
Patients were US residents, 18 75 years of age, had a clinical diagnosis of SLE according to the ACR classification criteria [8, 9], were able to speak and read English, and provided written informed consent.
Patients provided informed consent.
