Add to ORKGThe authors describe the various tests of competency to consent to treatment used today, which include the following: 1)evidencing a choice, 2) reasonable outcome of choice, 3)choice based on rational reasons, 4)ability to understand, and 5)actual understanding. They analyze the applicability of these tests to patients\u27 decisions to accept or refuse psychiatric treatment and illustrate the problems of ap-lying these tests by citing clinical case examples. They find that the circumstances in which competency becomes an issue determine which elements of which tests are stressed and which are underplayed
Half a decade ago, the Zinermon court announced the need for clinicians to evaluate the competence o...
Objective: The main objective of this article is to evaluate and describe instruments for assessing ...
The subject of this Article is people who have been civilly committed under a state’s parens patriae...
The authors used an interviett ’ quesi’iominaire to assess competency to consent to voluntary admiss...
Summary: One of the most challenging tasks facing clinicians today is the assessment of patients\u2...
OBJECTIVE: In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s 1990 decision in Zinermon v. Burch, renewed at...
To illustrate the dilemma in evaluating and treating patients who deny their illness, the authors pr...
Three instruments assessing abilities related to legal standards for competence to consent to treatm...
This is the first of three papers reporting the results of the MacArthur Treatment CompetenceStudy, ...
This article reports the development and psychometric properties of three standardized and objective...
Objectives To asses competence to consent to treatment in involuntary committed patients (ICP) for ...
Informed consent is valid only if the person giving it is competent. Although allegedly informed con...
Objectives To asses competence to consent to treatment in involuntary committed patients (ICP) for ...
OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the proportion of psychiatric and medical patients who are impair...
This Article examines the importance of patient autonomy and competence in medical decision making a...
Half a decade ago, the Zinermon court announced the need for clinicians to evaluate the competence o...
Objective: The main objective of this article is to evaluate and describe instruments for assessing ...
The subject of this Article is people who have been civilly committed under a state’s parens patriae...
The authors used an interviett ’ quesi’iominaire to assess competency to consent to voluntary admiss...
Summary: One of the most challenging tasks facing clinicians today is the assessment of patients\u2...
OBJECTIVE: In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s 1990 decision in Zinermon v. Burch, renewed at...
To illustrate the dilemma in evaluating and treating patients who deny their illness, the authors pr...
Three instruments assessing abilities related to legal standards for competence to consent to treatm...
This is the first of three papers reporting the results of the MacArthur Treatment CompetenceStudy, ...
This article reports the development and psychometric properties of three standardized and objective...
Objectives To asses competence to consent to treatment in involuntary committed patients (ICP) for ...
Informed consent is valid only if the person giving it is competent. Although allegedly informed con...
Objectives To asses competence to consent to treatment in involuntary committed patients (ICP) for ...
OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the proportion of psychiatric and medical patients who are impair...
This Article examines the importance of patient autonomy and competence in medical decision making a...
Half a decade ago, the Zinermon court announced the need for clinicians to evaluate the competence o...
Objective: The main objective of this article is to evaluate and describe instruments for assessing ...
The subject of this Article is people who have been civilly committed under a state’s parens patriae...