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Mental Competency (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Competency'
Articles 1 to 10 of 200:
Permanent sterilization of mentally disabled individuals: a case study.
30 Oct 2009 
rec_pub_19835729-permanent-sterilization-mentally-disabled-individuals-case-study.htm
Assessment of the capacity to consent to treatment in patients admitted to acute medical wards.
31 Aug 2009 
BACKGROUND: Assessment of capacity to consent to treatment is an important legal and ethical issue in daily medical practice. In this study we carefully evaluated the capacity to consent to treatment in patients admitted to an acute medical ward ...
rec_pub_19725954-assessment-capacity-consent-treatment-patients-admitted-acute-medical.htm
Saturday morning in the clinic.
30 Aug 2009
rec_pub_19806777-saturday-morning-clinic.htm
ECHR 2009/10 Case of Dauti v. Albania, 3 February 2009, no. 19206/05 (Fourth section).
30 Aug 2009
rec_pub_19788006-echr-2009-10-case-dauti-v-albania-3-february-2009-19206-05-fourth.htm
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 ...
rec_pub_19704237-stopping-eating-drinking.htm
Informed consent is more than a patient's signature.
25 Aug 2009
rec_pub_19713231-informed-consent-patient-s-signature.htm
18 Aug 2009
rec_pub_19771782-abuse-excluded-new-regulation-applies-patient-advance-directives.htm
When "no" means no: elderly patients' right to refuse treatment.
11 Aug 2009 In the complicated health care and legal system of the United States, all patients are endowed with certain rights. The American Hospital Association and the U.S. Supreme Court have each delineated certain rights to which patients who have the ...
rec_pub_19681558-when-means-elderly-patients-right-refuse-treatment.htm
Medicolegal knowledge in New Zealand.
5 Aug 2009
rec_pub_19701254-medicolegal-knowledge-new-zealand.htm
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 ...
rec_pub_19717992-covert-medication-older-adults-lack-decision-making-capacity.htm
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