Which of the Following Elements Is Necessary for Informed Consent

question 69

Multiple Choice

Which of the following elements is necessary for informed consent?

• A) Patient's diagnosis, if known
• B) Risks and benefits of the procedure or treatment
• C) Alternative treatments
• D) All of the above

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Definitions:

Independent Variables

Variables in an experiment or statistical model that are manipulated or categorized to determine their effect on dependent variables without being affected by any other variable in the model.

Homoscedasticity

A term in statistics describing a situation where all random variables across a dataset have the same finite variance.

Normality Of Errors

An assumption in many statistical models that the errors in the predictions are normally distributed.

Independence Of Errors

Pertains to a condition in statistical analyses where the errors of a model’s predictions are not correlated with each other.