Mental Competency - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Stopping eating and drinking.

30 Aug 2009 Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, in which death occurs within one to three weeks of beginning the fast, is increasingly explored in the literature and mainstream media as an option to be discussed with "decisionally capable," suffering ... Read more...

Covert medication in older adults who lack decision-making capacity.

30 Jul 2009 Any mentally competent adult has the right to give or refuse consent to treatment or nursing intervention. The ethical principle underpinning this free choice is respect for autonomy, and the nurse's professional duty to respect the decision of the ... Read more...

Mental health laws for those "compliant" with treatment.

30 Jul 2009 The focus of current mental health laws is on the involuntary detention and treatment of those with low-prevalence, serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. However, an international trend is developing towards using ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Competency - Legislation & jurisprudence'

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
• Stopping eating and drinking. 30 Aug 2009
• [Abuse is not excluded. The new regulation applies also without patient advance directives! (interview by Dr. med. Horst Gross)] 18 Aug 2009
• Medicolegal knowledge in New Zealand. 5 Aug 2009
• Covert medication in older adults who lack decision-making capacity. 30 Jul 2009
• Mental health laws for those "compliant" with treatment. 30 Jul 2009
• The vote of acute medical inpatients: a prospective study. 30 Jul 2009
• Mental Capacity Act: a must for all. 29 Jun 2009
• Treating the infant of a minor. 29 Jun 2009
• Uncertainty over safeguards. 29 Jun 2009
• The application of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 among geriatric psychiatry patients: a pilot study. 23 Jun 2009
• [Comparing ethics committees from France and Quebec with respect to incapacity to consent to research] 19 Jun 2009
• Deprivation of liberty. Liberty safeguards in hospital. 13 Jun 2009
• Research involving adults who lack capacity: how have research ethics committees interpreted the requirements? 30 May 2009
• Informed consent in high-risk renal transplant recipients. 30 May 2009
• Assessing capacity and obtaining consent for thrombolysis for acute stroke. 30 May 2009
• End-of-life decisions: a view from Ontario and beyond. 30 May 2009
• Deprivation of liberty safeguards and the Mental Capacity Act. 17 May 2009
• On "Distinguishing among irrational suicide, rational suicide, and other forms of hastened death: implications for clinical practice" by Cavin P. Leeman, M.D. 29 Apr 2009
• On "Distinguishing among irrational suicide, rational suicide, and other forms of hastened death: implications for clinical practice" by Cavin P. Leeman, M.D. 29 Apr 2009

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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)