Test administrators ensured that each participant had understood the information before informed consent was obtained by signature.
* Adjustment was made for age, gender, living with a partner, numeracy, personal experience with cardiovascular disease, experience with cardiovascular disease in the family, and interviewer's assessment of whether the informant understood the information given.
Individuals may believe they have understood the information and have made an informed choice, but have they?
This face-to-face contact will be used to determine whether the patients understood the information correctly and a written informed consent will be obtained.
A principle of informed consent is that physicians provide the information patients need in order to make informed decisions; but gauging whether LEP patients have really understood the information provided can be challenging.
In nearly ninety per cent of the taped discussions, the oncologists failed to ask the patients if they understood the information being presented to them.
This involved deciding whether they understood the information relevant to the decision and were able to use that information to reach a decision.
Confusion was central to the financial crisis; banks collapsed or needed bailouts, in part, because few trusted, or even understood, the information they provided about their health.
I understood the information they provided as a specific, credible threat that the Russian criminal enterprise – likely aided by the Russian government and/or secret police – were planning to kidnap and organise a rendition operation against me abroad".
In one tense exchange, Paul Robinson, the president of the Sandia National Laboratories and a witness for the prosecution, said that one defense expert, Harold M. Agnew, a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, had simply not understood the information Dr. Lee downloaded or had not understood the threat posed by Dr. Lee's actions.
(c) You must not require any passenger with a disability to demonstrate that he or she has listened to, read, or understood the information presented, except to the extent that carrier personnel impose such a requirement on all passengers with respect to the general safety briefing.
