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Mental Competency (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Competency'
Articles 111 to 120 of 200:
Driving status and three-year mortality among community-dwelling older adults.
28 Jan 2009 
BACKGROUND: Driving cessation can lead to myriad negative consequences for older adults. The purpose of these analyses was to examine driving status as a predictor of mortality among community-dwelling older adults. METHODS: This prospective cohort ...
rec_pub_19181711-driving-status-three-year-mortality-community-dwelling-older-adults.htm
26 Jan 2009 
BACKGROUND: Consistently swelling proportion of the frail elderly within a modern society challenges the overstrained public health sector to provide both adequate medical care and comprehensive assistance in their multiple functional deficits of ...
rec_pub_19175935-combined-effects-functionally-oriented-exercise-regimens-nutritional.htm
Competence to consent and insight in schizophrenia: is there an association? A pilot study.
19 Jan 2009 OBJECTIVE: The capacity to consent to treatment or research of patients with severe mental disorders is the focus of important ethical and clinical debate. Many studies evaluate the links between clinical symptoms and the capacity to consent. The ...
rec_pub_19162443-competence-consent-insight-schizophrenia-association-pilot-study.htm
Surrogate consent for dementia research: a national survey of older Americans.
11 Jan 2009 BACKGROUND: Research in novel therapies for Alzheimer disease (AD) relies on persons with AD as research subjects. Because AD impairs decisional capacity, informed consent often must come from surrogates, usually close family members. But policies ...
rec_pub_19139366-surrogate-consent-dementia-research-national-survey-older-americans.htm
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 ...
rec_pub_19845060-of-atkins-men-deviations-clinical-definitions-mental-retardation.htm
30 Dec 2008 
rec_pub_19767507-the-reader.htm
Drunk driving, implied consent, and self-incrimination.
30 Dec 2008 The effects of drunk driving are a significant risk to public health and safety. Accordingly, the federal government and the states have enacted laws that permit law enforcement to identify offenders and to apply various levels of sanctions. There ...
rec_pub_19767505-drunk-driving-implied-consent-self-incrimination.htm
Indiana v. Davis: revisiting due process rights of permanently incompetent defendants.
30 Dec 2008 With its landmark Jackson v. Indiana (406 U.S. 715 (1972)) decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled that states may not indefinitely confine criminal defendants solely on the basis of incompetence to stand trial. While this decision led to ...
rec_pub_19767504-indiana-v-davis-revisiting-process-rights-permanently-incompetent.htm
Giving until it hurts?: Altruistic donation of solid organs.
30 Dec 2008 The increased need for organs has led to greater acceptance of stranger or unrelated kidney donation. This broadening of the donor pool introduces challenges to the evaluation of such donors. Questions are raised regarding the obligation of an ...
rec_pub_19767503-giving-hurts-altruistic-donation-solid-organs.htm
Contracting for safety with patients: clinical practice and forensic implications.
30 Dec 2008 The contract for safety is a procedure used in the management of suicidal patients and has significant patient care, risk management, and medicolegal implications. We conducted a literature review to assess empirical support for this procedure and ...
rec_pub_19767501-contracting-safety-patients-clinical-practice-forensic-implications.htm
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