Add to ORKGThe medical literature devotes little attention to the application of competency to the general medical patient. Commonly, the only cases recognized as necessitating a competency evaluation are overtly psychotic patients, patients requiring written informed consent, and those patients who refuse treatments strongly recommended by their physician. Clarifying terminology and redefining competency provides a practical screening method for assessing competency in all patients. When physicians neglect the evaluation of competency, patient autonomy is compromised. Not only are all physicians capable of performing a competency evaluation, they are ethically and professionally required to do so
Competence is central to informed consent and, therefore, to medical practice. In this context, comp...
Objective. In absence of a gold standard of methods to assess competence, three judgements of compet...
Objective: Formally, incompetence implies that a patient cannot meet the legal requirements for info...
Competence is the ability to handle business affairs with ordinary prudence. It is a legal not a med...
Summary: One of the most challenging tasks facing clinicians today is the assessment of patients\u2...
The assessment of decision-making capacity is an essential element of competency determina-tions. As...
The authors describe the various tests of competency to consent to treatment used today, which inclu...
In this article the author examines the rationale, in legal and policy terms, of the inextricable as...
In order to protect patients against medical paternalism, patients have been granted the right to re...
In order to protect patients against medical paternalism, patients have been granted the right to re...
Psychiatrists generally are aware that there is not necessarily any relation between competency and ...
Assessment of competency for execution presents two compelling ethical ques-tions for mental health ...
To illustrate the dilemma in evaluating and treating patients who deny their illness, the authors pr...
Informed consent is valid only if the person giving it is competent. Although allegedly informed con...
The authors used an interviett ’ quesi’iominaire to assess competency to consent to voluntary admiss...
Competence is central to informed consent and, therefore, to medical practice. In this context, comp...
Objective. In absence of a gold standard of methods to assess competence, three judgements of compet...
Objective: Formally, incompetence implies that a patient cannot meet the legal requirements for info...
Competence is the ability to handle business affairs with ordinary prudence. It is a legal not a med...
Summary: One of the most challenging tasks facing clinicians today is the assessment of patients\u2...
The assessment of decision-making capacity is an essential element of competency determina-tions. As...
The authors describe the various tests of competency to consent to treatment used today, which inclu...
In this article the author examines the rationale, in legal and policy terms, of the inextricable as...
In order to protect patients against medical paternalism, patients have been granted the right to re...
In order to protect patients against medical paternalism, patients have been granted the right to re...
Psychiatrists generally are aware that there is not necessarily any relation between competency and ...
Assessment of competency for execution presents two compelling ethical ques-tions for mental health ...
To illustrate the dilemma in evaluating and treating patients who deny their illness, the authors pr...
Informed consent is valid only if the person giving it is competent. Although allegedly informed con...
The authors used an interviett ’ quesi’iominaire to assess competency to consent to voluntary admiss...
Competence is central to informed consent and, therefore, to medical practice. In this context, comp...
Objective. In absence of a gold standard of methods to assess competence, three judgements of compet...
Objective: Formally, incompetence implies that a patient cannot meet the legal requirements for info...