Mental Competency - Research News and Information

Monday, September 08, 2008

[Experience of an adaptation-assisting agent of animal origin during prolonged isolation and confinement]

5 Aug 2008 The utility of pantohematogen, an adaptation-assisting agent of animal origin for mental performance and functioning of the body systems was assessed in volunteered subjects exposed to prolonged isolation and... Read more...

Surrogate decision making: reconciling ethical theory and clinical practice.

Jul 2008 The care of adult patients without decision-making abilities is a routine part of medical practice. Decisions for these patients are typically made by surrogates according to a process governed by a hierarchy of 3... Read more...

Interpreting the clinical significance of capacity scores for informed consent in Alzheimer disease clinical trials.

Jul 2008 OBJECTIVE: Among Alzheimer disease (AD) patients enrolled in a clinical trial, the authors assessed the ability of a standardized capacity assessment procedure to identify persons who are capable of giving their own... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Competency'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Experience of an adaptation-assisting agent of animal origin during prolonged isolation and confinement] 5 Aug 2008
• Giving consent in dementia research. 19 Jul 2008
• Controlling personal health decisions for the oldest old. Jul 2008
• Surrogate decision making: reconciling ethical theory and clinical practice. Jul 2008
• Interpreting the clinical significance of capacity scores for informed consent in Alzheimer disease clinical trials. Jul 2008
• Psychotropic medications and informed consent: a review. 24 Jun 2008
• Best interests and potential organ donors. 14 Jun 2008
• In the laboratory of the states: the progress of Glucksberg's invitation to states to address end-of-life choice. Jun 2008
• GMC asks doctors to take greater care over consent after law changes. 24 May 2008
• [All patients' right to complete information--dilemma of health care services. No support by the law concerning mentally incompetent patients] 16 May 2008
• The Mental Capacity Act: some implications for black and minority ethnic elders. May 2008
• Associations between parents' and 12-year-old children's sport and vigorous activity: the role of self-esteem and athletic competence. May 2008
• Competency of criminal defendants to waive assistance of counsel at trial. 23 Apr 2008
• The Mental Capacity Act 2005 and decision-making: code of practice. 17 Apr 2008
• The Mental Capacity Act 2005: children and young persons. 17 Apr 2008
• The Mental Capacity Act 2005: mental capacity and mental illness. 17 Apr 2008
• Dementia care. Part 1: guidance and the assessment process. 17 Apr 2008
• [The placing of an unborn child under formal supervision where there is doubt about the safety of the home situation] 12 Apr 2008
• The Mental Capacity Act 2005 and decision-making: advance decisions. 11 Apr 2008
• [Ethical and legal aspects of including patients unable to consent in acute therapy studies. Example of a medication study for the treatment of intracerebral hemorrhage--the Heidelberg procedure] Apr 2008

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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; Competency, Mental; Mental Competence; Competence, Mental; Competence; Incompetency, Mental; Mental Incompetency; Incompetence, Mental; Mental Incompetence;

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)