Background and Objective: Studies show that leaving the hospital with personal consent is increasing. This phenomenon has unpleasant and sometimes irreversible consequences. This study aims to investigate the causes and consequences of leaving the hospital with the personal consent of patients referred to the emergency department of hospitals affiliated with Qom University of Medical Sciences i...

We use a personal work space setting to define several search tasks related to people. We propose models for accomplishing those tasks, and present results of recent and ongoing experiments, propose various further tasks and raise a number of questions.