Mental capacity assessments and discharge decisions

Mental capacity assessments and discharge decisions.

Professionals may have agendas that conflict with the person under their care as their dominant consideration is often safety. This may arise from a genuine concern about welfare, but may also involve fear of litigation from an adverse incident following discharge.

Reliability of mental capacity assessments in psychiatric in-patients.

BACKGROUND Previous work on the reliability of mental capacity assessments in patients with psychiatric illness has been limited. AIMS To describe the interrater reliability of two independent assessments of capacity to consent to treatment, as well as assessments made by a panel of clinicians based on the same interview. METHOD Fifty-five patients were interviewed by two interviewers 1-7 d...

Self-assessments and mating decisions

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(2007). Mating Intelligence: New insights into intimate relationships, human sexuality, and the mind's reproductive system. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum (pp. 37-75).

Can procedural and substantive elements of decision-making be reconciled in assessments of mental capacity?

Capacity legislation aims to protect individual autonomy and avoid undue paternalism as far as possible, partly through ensuring patients are not deemed to lack capacity because they make an unwise decision. To this end, the law employs a procedural test of capacity that excludes substantive judgments about patients' decisions. However, clinical intuitions about patients' capacity to make decis...