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Mental Competency (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Competency'
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Illness awareness in terminal cancer patients: an Italian study.
8 Dec 2008 
The amount and quality of information and awareness in cancer patients' is a topic frequently debated, but few studies have focussed on terminal patients. This is the objective of the present study that involved two different palliative home-care ...
rec_pub_19073780-illness-awareness-terminal-cancer-patients-italian-study.htm
3 Dec 2008 OBJECTIVE: To determine the level of knowledge and understanding of informed consent amongst consultant orthodontists. DESIGN: A questionnaire which covered a range of legal issues on informed consent as it pertains to clinical practice in three of ...
rec_pub_19057560-an-audit-level-knowledge-understanding-informed-consent-consultant.htm
An audit of competency assessments on court-referred rape survivors in South Africa.
29 Nov 2008 This report concerns rape survivors with mental retardation referred by the courts for evaluation of their competencies to (i) provide testimony in court and (ii) consent to sexual intercourse. Being a relatively new area of work in South Africa, it ...
rec_pub_19320210-an-audit-competency-assessments-court-referred-rape-survivors-south.htm
Live donor transplantation--the incompetent donor: comparative law.
29 Nov 2008 Informed consent of the patient to medical treatment is an essential prerequisite for any invasive medical procedure. However in emergency cases, when the patient is unable to sign a consent form due to unconsciousness or to psychotic state, than ...
rec_pub_19202861-live-donor-transplantation-incompetent-donor-comparative-law.htm
Clinical utility of the Hopkins Competency Assessment Test on an inpatient geropsychiatry unit.
29 Nov 2008 This study examined the clinical use of routine administration of the Hopkins Competency Assessment Test on an inpatient geropsychiatry unit. The purpose was to determine whether the Hopkins Competency Assessment Test results influenced the ...
rec_pub_19047475-clinical-utility-hopkins-competency-assessment-test-inpatient.htm
Mental capacity act 2005: lasting powers of attorney.
29 Nov 2008 In their final article on the Mental Capacity Act 2005, Richard Griffith and Cassam Tengnah consider the impact on district nurse practice of Lasting Powers of Attorney that allow a person to appoint one or more people to make decisions concerning ...
rec_pub_19060836-mental-capacity-act-2005-lasting-powers-attorney.htm
29 Nov 2008 AIM: This paper is a report of an integrative review of informed consent to healthcare interventions in people with learning disabilities. BACKGROUND: Consent to treatment lies at the heart of the relationship between patient and healthcare ...
rec_pub_19120568-informed-consent-healthcare-interventions-people-learning.htm
The wills of older people: risk factors for undue influence.
29 Nov 2008 BACKGROUND: As people live longer, there is increasing potential for mental disorders to interfere with testamentary distribution and render older people more vulnerable to "undue influence" when they are making a will. Accordingly, clinicians ...
rec_pub_19040788-the-wills-older-people-risk-factors-undue-influence.htm
Changes to the Mental Health Act.
29 Nov 2008 The revised Code of Practice reminds us: the patient's consent should be sought before treatment is given, wherever practicable. (Code, para ...
rec_pub_19189484-changes-mental-health-act.htm
Bibliography. Current world literature. Ethical, legal and organizational issues in the ICU.
29 Nov 2008 
rec_pub_19023914-bibliography-current-world-literature-ethical-legal-organizational.htm
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