Mental Competency - Classification
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Of Atkins and men: deviations from clinical definitions of mental retardation in death penalty cases.

30 Dec 2008 Under Atkins v. Virginia, the Eighth Amendment exempts from execution individuals who meet the clinical definitions of mental retardation set forth by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and the American ... Read more...

Assessment of mental capacity in patients recruited in clinical trials in psychiatry and its relationship to informed consent.

30 Dec 2008 Insufficient attention is paid to the need for assessing the mental capacity of participants in clinical trials, particularly those in psychiatry. Assessment of mental capacity is paramount especially in patients suffering from certain brain ... Read more...

Developing a self-rating measure of patient competence in the context of oncology: a multi-center study.

30 Oct 2008 OBJECTIVE: Concepts of patient competence (PC) are being increasingly used, but seldom clearly defined in the context of shared medical treatment decision making and coping with cancer. The meaning of such concepts should therefore be clarified, and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Competency - Classification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• ECHR 2009/10 Case of Dauti v. Albania, 3 February 2009, no. 19206/05 (Fourth section). 30 Aug 2009
• Of Atkins and men: deviations from clinical definitions of mental retardation in death penalty cases. 30 Dec 2008
• Assessment of mental capacity in patients recruited in clinical trials in psychiatry and its relationship to informed consent. 30 Dec 2008
• Developing a self-rating measure of patient competence in the context of oncology: a multi-center study. 30 Oct 2008
• "How fury and lucid intervals may be proven" by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh. 30 May 2008
• How fury and lucid intervals may be proven. 1669. 30 May 2008
• Decisional capacity for research participation in individuals with mild cognitive impairment. 10 May 2008
• [Evaluating extensive consciousness disturbance. Roulette or well-founded forensic diagnostics?] 27 Feb 2007
• Assessing decisional capacity for clinical research or treatment: a review of instruments. 30 Jul 2006
• The capacity to vote of persons with Alzheimer's disease. 30 Oct 2005
• Concerned about client decision-making capacity? Considerations for practice. 30 Dec 2004
• Can adults with cognitive impairment consent to take part in research? 29 Jun 2004
• Capacity to consent to treatment: empirical comparison of three instruments in older adults with and without dementia. 30 Mar 2004
• Legal and psychological implications in the assessment of sexual consent in the cognitively impaired population. 29 Nov 2003
• Assessing dimensions of competency to stand trial: construct validation of the ECST-R. 29 Nov 2003
• To have and to hold, until competence do us part! 30 Oct 2003
• Competence to consent to research among long-stay inpatients with chronic schizophrenia. 30 Aug 2003
• Informed consent during the clinical emergency of acute myocardial infarction (HERO-2 consent substudy): a prospective observational study. 13 Mar 2003
• A two pronged test for surgical decision-making in the cognitively impaired patient. 27 Feb 2003
• Adolescent competency and the refusal of medical treatment. 30 Dec 2002

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Technical information about 'Mental Competency'

Definition: The ability to understand the nature and effect of the act in which the individual is engaged. (From Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed).

Descriptor UI: D016743

Alternative terms: Mental Competency; Mental Competence; Competence, Mental; Competency, Mental; Incompetency, Mental; Mental Incompetency; Incompetence, Mental; Mental Incompetence; Competence;

Related Mesh Headings: Informed Consent; Insanity Defense; Legal Guardians; Treatment Refusal; Comprehension;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; standards;

Tree Number: F01.590; F02.410; I01.880.604.583.530; N03.706.535.625;

History Note: 92

Technical Notes: in mental retard or organic or psychiat mental disord; coord IM with concomitant disord /psychol (IM); competency to consent: coord IM with INFORMED CONSENT (IM)