At the beginning of 2005, when I put my name on the list, there were about 60,000 people ahead of me; by the end of that year, only 1 in 9 had received one from a relative, spouse or friend.
The village has agreed to amend the ordinance to define a family as one person living with a blood relative, spouse, adopted child or one or more unrelated people "as a single not-for-profit housekeeping unit sharing common kitchen facilities".
Written informed consent was obtained from a relative, spouse or legally acceptable representative before neurosurgery.
Our sample included 185 people (76 males, 109 females) who had lost a close relative (spouse, mother or father) in the previous twelve months.
Data will be collected through open-ended semistructured interviews with patients, a relative (spouse, sibling, child or parent) and a doctor directly involved in the patient's care.
A contact locator form with address and telephone numbers of respondent and/or their head of household or guardian, a relative, spouse or friend were recorded.
The relative had to be the legal representative of the patient (i.e. nearest relative: spouse, parent, child or if the patient had no family, a friend) and were included by an ICU consultant (AP or JB), a research fellow (MI) or a research nurse, who gave information about the survey and the questionnaire to the relative.
Increasingly, surgeons are telling people who need transplants that their relatives, spouses and friends are potential organ donors.
The Times is committed to portraying as many of the known victims as possible, capturing them as they are remembered by friends, relatives, spouses, children and co-workers.
About 60 percent of those are immediate relatives — spouses, minor children, parents — of American citizens, and an additional 30 percent are other relatives, like siblings.
