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Mental Competency (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Competency'
Articles 11 to 20 of 200:
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
Mental health laws for those "compliant" with treatment.
30 Jul 2009 The focus of current mental health laws is on the involuntary detention and treatment of those with low-prevalence, serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. However, an international trend is developing towards using ...
rec_pub_19771982-mental-health-laws-compliant-treatment.htm
[Circumcision for boys incapable of giving informed consent]
30 Jul 2009 The discussion on circumcision for children, as a ritual as well as a medically indicated intervention, is still being carried out as in the past in a very emotional and not always rational manner. The attempt to criminalize circumcision, even the ...
rec_pub_19626309-circumcision-boys-incapable-giving-informed-consent.htm
[Information for minors and parental authority]
30 Jul 2009
rec_pub_19689049-information-minors-parental-authority.htm
The vote of acute medical inpatients: a prospective study.
30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: There may be ethical issues associated with allowing certain inpatients to vote as some may be cognitively impaired. During the 2007 elections in France, we conducted a prospective observational study on voting among hospitalized ...
rec_pub_19584412-the-vote-acute-medical-inpatients-prospective-study.htm
14 Jul 2009
rec_pub_19605827-who-capacity.htm
Mental Capacity Act: a must for all.
29 Jun 2009
rec_pub_19584790-mental-capacity-act-all.htm
Treating the infant of a minor.
29 Jun 2009
rec_pub_19592369-treating-infant-minor.htm
Is it right to exclude people with a mental illness from jury service?
29 Jun 2009
rec_pub_19746555-is-right-exclude-people-mental-illness-jury-service.htm
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