Decision‐making capacity assessment education

Refusal of care: the physician-patient relationship and decisionmaking capacity.

Problems of refusal of care, among the most common ethical dilemmas in the emergency department, are also often the most difficult to resolve, pitting 2 conflicting duties, that of helping patients and that of respecting their autonomy, against each other. Using a case presentation as a backdrop, this article offers a practical approach to patients who refuse treatment, including assessment of ...

Aviation Security, Risk Assessment, and Risk Aversion for Public Decisionmaking

This paper estimates risk reductions for each layer of security designed to prevent commercial passenger airliners from being commandeered by terrorists, kept under control for some time, and then crashed into specific targets. Probabilistic methods are used to characterize the uncertainty of rates of deterrence, detection, and disruption, as well as losses. Since homeland security decisionmake...

Capacity Development, Education & Training

Research involving persons with mental disorders that may affect decisionmaking capacity.

In December 1998, the US National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) published the above-named report. The committee made twenty-one recommendations, some of which provide a set of requirements that NBAC believes should be satisfied in all research involving persons with mental disorders, while some are optional protections, that may be considered appropriate, depending on the particular circ...

Decisionmaking for Defense

Defense is, for all nations, at the heart of national security. All nations face a common set of choices—what decisions must be made, who will make them, how resources will be allocated, and what investments will be made. At one level up, nations have to decide what principles and style of decisionmaking are appropriate for them, and, importantly, what structure will govern the process of defen...