Competence To Make Medical Decisions

Defining Patient Competence for Medical Decision Making

https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(16)33698-4/fulltext

Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions - Fundamentals …

https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/fundamentals/legal-and-ethical-issues/capacity-to-make-health-care-decisions

Clinical incapacity to make health care decisions is the medical judgment of a qualified doctor or other health care practitioner who determines a person is unable to …

Assessment of decision-making capacity in adults

https://www.uptodate.com/contents/assessment-of-decision-making-capacity-in-adults

The capacity to make one's own decisions is fundamental to the ethical principle of respect for autonomy and is a key component of informed consent to medical …

Assessment of patient competence for making decisions

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31345500/

The procedure is based on 5 steps: 1) recognising the conditions that require a competence assessment; 2) fully evaluating the competence; 3) correlating the …

When Does A Minor’s Legal Competence To Make …

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/146/Supplement_1/S25/34485/When-Does-A-Minor-s-Legal-Competence-To-Make

The MacArthur Treatment Competence Study identified 4 standards of competence, one or more of which are often used in various health care decision …

Competence, Capacity, and Surrogate Decision-Making

https://www.cbhd.org/cbhd-resources/competence-capacity-and-surrogate-decision-making

In order to make valid treatment decisions, a person must be able to (a) recognize there is a decision to be made, (b) understand the needed information, (c) …

How Do I Determine if My Patient has Decision-Making …

https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/124731/how-do-i-determine-if-my-patient-has-decision-making-capacity

KEY POINTS. Competency is a global assessment and legal determination made by a judge in court. Capacity is a functional assessment and a clinical determination about a specific decision that can be made …

Assessment of Patients' Competence to Consent to …

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcp074045

Given the requirement of competence for valid informed consent, the assessment of the patient's capacity to make decisions is an intrinsic aspect of every physician–patient interaction....

When Does A Minor's Legal Competence To Make …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32737229/

Abstract In this article, I examine the role of minors' competence for medical decision-making in modern American law. The doctrine of parental consent remains the default …