Capacity to make health care decisions: its importance in clinical practice

Capacity to make health care decisions: its importance in clinical practice.

BACKGROUND Assessment of capacity plays a pivotal role in determining when decisions need to be made on behalf of an individual. It therefore has major clinical management implications for health care professionals and civil liberties implications for the person concerned. In many countries, there is a presumption that adults have the capacity to make health care decisions. However, in persons ...

Should families make health care decisions?

Considering quality: engaging consumers to make better health care decisions.

On May 19, 2005, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) convened nearly 50 grantmakers and leaders in the field of health care quality to discuss the challenges inherent in developing quality information, as well as how consumers use such information. This Issue Brief examines the potential of consumers to use information to select high-quality health services and to become drivers of quality improvement ...

A Simulation-Optimization Model For Capacity Coordination In Make To Stock/Make To Order Production Environments

Capacity coordination, as the tactical level of hierarchical production planning in hybrid MTS/MTO systems, includes numerous important decisions. In this paper, two of these decisions i.e. finding the best strategy for the acceptance/rejection of incoming orders and determining orders’ due dates – are investigated. Also a simulation model is proposed to evaluate the efficiency of the presented...

Ethical Issues: The Patient’s Capacity to Make Medical Decisions

Although not always formally trained in ethics, consultation-liaison (C/L) psychiatrists and psychosomatic medicine physicians who practice in general hospitals frequently see cases laden with ethical questions. In a 2006 survey of members of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, the majority of respondents reported that management of bioethical dilemmas had a significant effect on their work;...