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Mental Competency (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Competency'
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Should or should not forensic psychiatrists think about free will?
13 Oct 2008 
The forensic psychiatrist's task is often considered to be tightly connected to the concept of free will. Yet, there is also a lack of clarity about the role of the concept of free will in forensic psychiatry. Recently, Morse has argued that ...
rec_pub_18855122-should-forensic-psychiatrists-think-free-will.htm
13 Oct 2008 Little is currently known about the higher order functional skills of patients with Parkinson disease and cognitive impairment. Medical decision-making capacity (MDC) was assessed in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) with cognitive impairment ...
rec_pub_18759361-medical-decision-making-capacity-cognitively-impaired-parkinson-s.htm
13 Oct 2008 OBJECTIVE: Research that seeks to enroll noncompetent patients with Alzheimer's disease without presenting any potential benefit to participants is the source of substantial ethical controversy. The authors used hypothetical Alzheimer's disease ...
rec_pub_18923066-older-adults-attitudes-enrollment-non-competent-subjects.htm
Shared decision making and serious mental illness.
13 Oct 2008 This study examined medication decision making by 84 persons with serious mental illness, specifically examining relationships among perceived coercion, decisional capacity, preferences for involvement and actual participation, and the outcomes of ...
rec_pub_19026922-shared-decision-making-serious-mental-illness.htm
Incompetent patients, substitute decision making, and quality of life: some ethical considerations.
12 Oct 2008 
One of the most difficult situations facing physicians involves decision making by substitute decision makers for patients who have never been competent. This paper begins with a brief examination of the ethics of substitute decision making for ...
rec_pub_19099031-incompetent-patients-substitute-decision-making-quality-life-ethical.htm
9 Oct 2008 
rec_pub_18849922-consent-capacity.htm
Informed consent revisited: a doctrine in the service of cancer care.
8 Oct 2008 Informed consent traditionally has been viewed as a safeguard for the protection of patients' decisional autonomy. While informed consent is a critical means for the protection of the patient's dominion over the integrity of his body, exclusive ...
rec_pub_18849321-informed-consent-revisited-doctrine-service-cancer-care.htm
Assessing advance directives in the homebound elderly.
6 Oct 2008 We studied the prevalence of specific barriers that prevent indigent homebound older adults from obtaining advance directives and tested the effectiveness of clinical reminders for lowering the number of clients without advance directives. Case ...
rec_pub_18843136-assessing-advance-directives-homebound-elderly.htm
The issue of consent in research that administers drugs of addiction to addicted persons.
29 Sep 2008 In addiction, impaired control over drug use raises questions about the capacity of addicted persons to consent to participate in research studies in which they are given their drug of addiction. We review the case for doing such research, and the ...
rec_pub_18972263-the-issue-consent-research-administers-drugs-addiction-addicted.htm
Does esophageal atresia influence the mother-infant interaction?
29 Sep 2008 PURPOSE: Chronic illness in infancy may influence parent-infant interaction. We assessed quality of mother-infant interaction in children with esophageal atresia (EA) and searched for predictors for impaired interaction. METHODS: The study group ...
rec_pub_18926210-does-esophageal-atresia-influence-mother-infant-interaction.htm
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