We explore the ethics of using motivational interviewing (MI), an evidence-based, client-centred and directional counselling method, in conversations with next of kin about deceased solid organ donation. After briefly introducing MI and providing some context around organ transplantation and next of kin consent, we describe how MI might be implemented in this setting, with the hypothesis that MI has the potential to bring about a modest yet significant increase in next of kin consent rates. We subsequently consider the objection that using MI in this context would be manipulative. Although we cannot guarantee that MI would never be used in a problematically manipulative fashion, we conclude that its use would, nevertheless, be permissible as a potential means to increase next of kin consent to deceased solid organ donation. We propose that MI be trialled in consent situations with next of kin in nations where there is widespread public support for organ donation.
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Textbooks for Arabic courses (all levels, some specific to regional varieties) account for the bulk of the list. The remaining books are a mix from fields including psychology, political science, health sciences, and business management.
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Two Swiss meta-analyses have found an increased rate of myocardial infarction and death with the Cypher (sirolimus-eluting) coronary stent, which is likely to put a serious chill in interventional cardiology's infatuation with drug-coated devices
We must optimize stent deployment & maintain a registry of how well (or poorly) we use drug-eluting stents. Instead of asking “Which stent?” or “How much anti-platelet therapy?” we must ask “How effectively are we deploying our stents?”
S. Steinhaeusser, M. Heckel, and B. Lugrin. Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2024), page 1018–1022. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2024)
S. Steinhaeusser, R. Piller, and B. Lugrin. Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, page 687–696. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2024)
A. Fiolka, M. Donnermann, and B. Lugrin. Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2024), New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2024)
M. Donnermann, P. Heinzmann, and B. Lugrin. Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2024), New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2024)
D. Obremski, H. Hering, P. Friedrich, and B. Lugrin. Proceedings of the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION (ICMI '22), November 7--11, 2022, page 15--24. (2022)Best Paper Award.
D. Obremski, O. Akuffo, L. Lücke, M. Semineth, S. Tomiczek, H. Weichert, and B. Lugrin. Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, page 747–755. Richland, SC, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, (2023)
D. Obremski, and B. Lugrin. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, page 290–292. (2022)DOI: 10.1145/3527188.3563910.
D. Obremski, and B. Lugrin. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, ACM, (2023)DOI: 10.1145/3570945.3607288, in press.