Medical decision-making capacity in cognitively impaired Parkinson's disease patients without dementia
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Measuring decision-making capacity in cognitively impaired individuals.
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OBJECTIVES To investigate capacity to consent to medical treatment (competency) in cognitively impaired patients with PD. BACKGROUND Although competency has been studied empirically in patients with cortical dementia (AD), no empirical studies have examined competency in patients with PD or other subcortical neurodegenerative disorders. METHODS Patients with PD with cognitive impairment (n ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Movement Disorders
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0885-3185,1531-8257
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22170