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Mental Competency (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Competency'
Articles 161 to 170 of 200:
Surrogate decision makers for incompetent ICU patients: a European perspective.
29 Nov 2008 
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Frequently, ICU patients lack the capacity to share discussions and make decisions about their health. Designation of a surrogate and advance directives have been proposed to empower patients and give more place to their autonomy. ...
rec_pub_19005315-surrogate-decision-makers-incompetent-icu-patients-european.htm
Capacity to make a decision about discharge destination after stroke: a pilot study.
29 Nov 2008 OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of cognitive problems and other factors on the capacity to make a decision about discharge destination and to compare the impressions of multidisciplinary team (MDT) members regarding capacity with a formal ...
rec_pub_19052250-capacity-make-decision-discharge-destination-stroke-pilot-study.htm
Solicitors and enduring documents: current practice and best practice.
29 Nov 2008 Queensland's guardianship legislation requires that a witness to an enduring power of attorney or advance health directive not only certify that the principal signed the document in their presence, but also that the principal appeared to have the ...
rec_pub_19205309-solicitors-enduring-documents-current-practice-best-practice.htm
Assessing decisional capacity in the elderly.
29 Nov 2008 Elderly cancer patients may differ from younger patients in their preferences for treatment, in decisional style, and in the kinds of information. In addition, both the prevalence of cognitive disorders and risk for delirium in severe illness ...
rec_pub_19027466-assessing-decisional-capacity-elderly.htm
Medical reasons for retrospective challenges of testamentary capacity.
29 Nov 2008 OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to establish the morbidity structure among testators whose wills were challenged as well as to reveal if there is a specific relationship between certain diagnostic categories in the testators' health status and ...
rec_pub_19011589-medical-reasons-retrospective-challenges-testamentary-capacity.htm
Social competence of preschool children with epilepsy.
19 Nov 2008 The aims of this study were to describe the social competence of 3- to 6-year-old children with epilepsy (n=26) compared with that of age- and gender-matched healthy controls (n=26). Social competence was assessed with the Vineland Social Maturity ...
rec_pub_19027086-social-competence-preschool-children-epilepsy.htm
17 Nov 2008 A patient may not demand an intervention that is not medically indicated. Such situations put the physician in a conflictual position that may jeopardize the physician-patient relationship. Exploring the different viewpoints may help explaining the ...
rec_pub_19127899-what-case-disagreement-physician-patient-legal-ethical-considerations.htm
Trust decides against legal action to force girl to receive heart transplant.
10 Nov 2008 
rec_pub_19004894-trust-decides-legal-action-force-girl-receive-heart-transplant.htm
[Palliative care and Alzheimer disease]
30 Oct 2008 Although end-of-life care is a relatively common option for patients with terminal cancer, it has become available only recently for patients with Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is a chronic process of gradual deterioration of cognitive ...
rec_pub_18977559-palliative-care-alzheimer-disease.htm
30 Oct 2008 This policy document was prepared by J Nunn, M Foster, S Master and S Greening on behalf of the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry (BSPD). Policy documents produced by the BSPD represent a majority view, based on a consideration of currently ...
rec_pub_18808546-british-society-paediatric-dentistry-policy-document-consent-use.htm
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