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Mental Competency (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Competency'
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19 Apr 2009 
OBJECTIVES: To investigate financial capacity in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) using a clinician interview approach. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SETTING: Tertiary care medical center. PARTICIPANTS: Healthy ...
rec_pub_19453308-clinical-interview-assessment-financial-capacity-older-adults-mild.htm
A clinical study of competency to consent to hospitalization and treatment in geriatric inpatients.
15 Apr 2009 This study used a Competency Questionnaire modified for medical surgical patients (CQ-Med). Twenty-nine patients (ages 65-94 years) admitted to a geriatric medicine unit were studied. Along with the CQ-Med, patients were administered several WAIS-R ...
rec_pub_19486444-a-clinical-study-competency-consent-hospitalization-treatment.htm
Activity in the superior temporal sulcus highlights learning competence in an interaction game.
6 Apr 2009 During behavioral adaptation through interaction with human and nonhuman agents, marked individual differences are seen in both real-life situations and games. However, the underlying neural mechanism is not well understood. We conducted a ...
rec_pub_19357279-activity-superior-temporal-sulcus-highlights-learning-competence.htm
[Deviations from a treatment agreement without the patient's consent require legal basis]
4 Apr 2009 
rec_pub_19350490-deviations-treatment-agreement-patient-s-consent-require-legal-basis.htm
30 Mar 2009 OBJECTIVE: We aimed to investigate the differences in emotional and behavioral problems and to explore the association between the level of psychiatric problems and the metabolic control in Type 1 diabetes. METHODS: The children with Type 1 diabetes ...
rec_pub_19636200-association-emotional-behavioral-problems-metabolic-control-children.htm
Truth telling at the end of life.
30 Mar 2009
rec_pub_19606652-truth-telling-end-life.htm
Psychiatric disorders in pregnancy.
30 Mar 2009 The care and treatment of women with psychiatric disorders in pregnancy is both challenging and complex. The decision to treat or not treat can pose a risk to the mother, the developing fetus or infant and the pregnancy outcome. Treatment options ...
rec_pub_19474582-psychiatric-disorders-pregnancy.htm
Live or let die: ethical issues in a psychiatric patient with end-stage renal failure.
30 Mar 2009 
Medical co-morbidities are very common in patients with psychiatric conditions. Although respecting one's autonomy to make treatment decisions is the ethical default position, the capacity to make such decisions may need to be assessed, especially ...
rec_pub_19434342-live-let-die-ethical-issues-psychiatric-patient-end-stage-renal.htm
Ethical issues in treating pregnant women with severe mental illness.
30 Mar 2009 Severe mental illness tends to occur and recur among women in the reproductive period. Both the disorders and the treatments may have effects on the mother and the foetus. The clinician hence is often in a dilemma when treating pregnant women with ...
rec_pub_19517649-ethical-issues-treating-pregnant-women-severe-mental-illness.htm
30 Mar 2009 The McNaughton rules for determining whether a person can be successfully defended on the grounds of mental incompetence were determined by a committee of the House of Lords in 1843. They arose as a consequence of the trial of Daniel McNaughton for ...
rec_pub_19296283-criminal-law-pertains-mentally-incompetent-defendants-mcnaughton-rule.htm
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