نتایج جستجو برای: making capacity

تعداد نتایج: 596847  

Journal: :University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 2019

2017
Benjamin W. J. Spencer Gareth Wilson Ewa Okon-Rocha Gareth S. Owen Charlotte Wilson Jones

Aims and method We aimed to audit the documentation of decision-making capacity (DMC) assessments by our liaison psychiatry service against the legal criteria set out in the Mental Capacity Act 2005. We audited 3 months split over a 2-year period occurring before, during and after an educational intervention to staff. Results There were 21 assessments of DMC in month 1 (6.9% of all referrals), ...

Background The lack of effective use of research evidence in policy-making is a major challenge in most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There is need to package research data into effective policy tools that will help policy-makers to make evidence-informed policy regarding infectious diseases of poverty (IDP). The objective of this study was to assess the usefulness of training works...

Journal: :CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne 2008
Kenneth M Flegel Noni MacDonald

Clinicians know that elderly people do not fear death so much as the process of dying. Because modern therapies are more effective at relieving pain, emotional angst and moral bewilderment, control over the process itself has emerged as the salient concern. This defence of the need to be in control is particularly apparent among elderly people with dementia. Thus, it is odd that in adult medica...

2013
Natalie F Banner George Szmukler

The assessment of patients' decision-making capacity (DMC) has become an important area of clinical practice, and since it provides the gateway for a consideration of non-consensual treatment, has major ethical implications. Tests of DMC such as under the Mental Capacity Act (2005) for England and Wales aim at supporting autonomy and reducing unwarranted paternalism by being 'procedural', focus...

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