Acceptance and insight: incapacity to give informed consent
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Acceptance and insight: incapacity to give informed consent.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW To highlight areas for potential refinement in assessments of capacity to give informed consent. RECENT FINDINGS The clinical assessment of the patient's capacity to give informed consent may be informed and guided by sophisticated criteria or assessment instruments. The approach of most assessment instruments and the literature on (in)capacity departs from the abilities tha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Opinion in Psychiatry
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0951-7367
DOI: 10.1097/yco.0b013e32833168b9