The Ethical Need for a Fertility Decision-Aid for Transgender Adults of Reproductive Age by Shannon Glick

“…Clinics and providers could elect to tailor the decision aid for their population to include specific information about local laws and the availability of services. …”
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Procreative Beneficence in the CRISPR World by Steven Daws

“…The United States must act however, to mitigate risk and allow for parents to make an informed risk-benefit assessment if they elect to utilize CRISPR technology.  While acting on the principle of Procreative Beneficence does not constitute child abuse per the legal ethics of intention, to not apply the principle to the selection of non-disease traits would not constitute child neglect, as it is likely the basic needs of the child are still being met.  …”
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Identification and Analysis of Influential Factors in Good Rural Governance (Case Study: Ardabil County) by Kiumarth Khodapanah

“…[In Persian]- Daftary, D. (2019). Elected local bodies, space, and governance of market expansion in rural India. …”
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Alone on an Island by Erin Kwolek

“…Goldberg, ‘Eliminating the Phrase “Elective Abortion”: Why Language Matters’, Contraception, 93.2 (2016), 89–92, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2015.10.008…”
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LASIK Surgery by Megan Yu

“…Photo by Scott Van Daalen on Unsplash INTRODUCTION LASIK surgery, one of the most common elective procedures worldwide, aims to decrease or eliminate the need to wear glasses or contact lenses by reshaping the cornea’s curvature to restore the eye’s refractive power.[1] There is a popular belief among the public that the procedure is “virtually foolproof”,[2] which is largely shaped by LASIK advertising and marketing techniques.[3] However, recent studies and news reports suggest that complications after LASIK surgery are not uncommon and that many eye centers and LASIK advertisements continue to promise “20/20 vision or your money back” or fail to disclose possible LASIK complications.[4] In fact, a recent study conducted by the U.S. …”
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Addressing Infertility with Uterine Transplant by Elizaveta Garbuzova

“…The biggest concern for living donation is that it exposes the donor to unacceptable risks, especially considering that the procedure is elective and not life-saving. In other types of transplants, the sacrifice is warranted because the organ is needed to save the recipient's life. …”
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At the intersection of public and private morality by Anne Zimmerman

“…Some technique to garner consensus or override governors that fail to act should be developed. Elections were the chance to decide who would make difficult decisions. …”
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Architecture: from time of mind to time of nature by Ettore Rocca

“…The works of Cézanne, Van Gogh, O’Keeffe, Bourgeois enter the narrative of the history of painting and survive their authors. When we elect World Heritage Sites, we order them so that they can tell the time of human thinking and acting. …”
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The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Performance and Efficiency of Selected Military Hospitals: A Cross-Sectional Study by Aliakbar Golmohammadi, Pouran Raeisi, Touraj Harati Khalilabad

“…In this way, with the Coronavirus and the reduction of routine hospital activities in the emergency and elective surgery departments, the specific income of hospitals has decreased sharply, so a decrease of 355 million dollars in the specific income of hospitals is predicted on March 2022. …”
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Non-COVID-19 Patients Left out in the Cold by Camille Castelyn

“…For example, routine child vaccinations have been disrupted,[11] critical delivery of anti-retroviral drugs for HIV treatment has been disrupted, non-elective surgeries have been suspended, cancer patients have been receiving limited treatment,[12] and mothers have had limited labor and delivery care.[13] While these disruptions occur in other nations as well, countries with more robust healthcare systems may be able to bear the brunt of this burden more successfully than nations like South Africa.  …”
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Thromboprophylaxis during pregnancy and the puerperium: a systematic review and economic evaluation to estimate the value of future research by Sarah Davis, Abdullah Pandor, Fiona C Sampson, Jean Hamilton, Catherine Nelson-Piercy, Beverley J Hunt, Jahnavi Daru, Steve Goodacre, Rosie Carser, Gill Rooney, Mark Clowes

“…The survey results also suggest that in postpartum women there is greater clinical equipoise in women whose risk factors are an elective caesarean section combined with either age over 35 years or obesity, and women whose only clinical risk factors are age and a BMI between 30 and 40 kg/m2. …”
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Public space and the contemporary city. A narrative of places, time, relationships by Emilio Faroldi

“…The morphological, functional, and organisational criteria of the open space are no longer deciphered as a negative sphere in the urban fabric but elected as a generating element. These aspects once again characterise the main proposals for transformation of the most emblematic urban systems of Europe, giving the square the role of amplifying the values and contradictions of an architecture that is no longer monodirectional from a linguistic and functional point of view. …”
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Partnership with a Theater Company to Amplify Voices of Underrepresented-in-Medicine Students by George Hernandez, Valeria Sandena, Sotonye Douglas, Amy Miyako Williams, Anna-Leila Williams

“…The 15 URiM student leaders elected three students (GH, VS, SD) to organize the event and imbued the three organizers with decision-making capacity. …”
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Commentary triggered by the Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis Consortium study of job strain and myocardial infarction risk by Töres Theorell

“…Perhaps a formalized structure would have helped (eg, a small group could be democratically elected by all the participating researchers to act on their behalf in “critical situations”). …”
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Vertical integration of general practices with acute hospitals in England: rapid impact evaluation by Sidhu Manbinder, Saunders Catherine L, Davies Charlotte, McKenna Gemma, Wu Frances, Litchfield Ian, Olumogba Fifi, Sussex Jon

“…Acute trusts are providers of hospital-based, emergency and/or elective specialist health care as well as, in some instances, providers of community health services. …”
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Not Just Non-Consensual Pelvic Exams by Shelby Harriel - Hidlebaugh

“…Given the parallels in the arguments for regulating unauthorized sensitive exams, like pelvic exams under anesthesia, policymakers and legislators should expand their efforts to require express consent for all intimate encounters that occur before, during, and after elective medical procedures to protect all patients. …”
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