'Not in perfect mind' - The complexity of clinical capacity assessment

Psychiatric Bulletin

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 201-204

  Raymont, Vanessa ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; SKILL;

EID: 0036269630     PISSN: 09556036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/pb.26.6.201     Document Type: Editorial

References (28)

1. Psychopharmacological treatment of delirium to restore mental capacity
2. Decisional capacity for informed consent in schizophrenia research
3. Competence to consent to treatment: A guide for the psychiatrist
4. Assessment of competence to complete advance directives: Validation of a patient centred approach
5. Detention and control of informal mentally disordered patients
6. Informed consent and neuroanatomic correlates of intentionality and voluntariness among psychiatric patients
7. The MacArthur treatment competence study. III. Abilities of patients to consent to psychiatric and medical treatments
8. The MacCAT - T: A clinical tool to assess patient's capacities to make treatment decisions
9. Managing patients with deliberate self harm who refuse treatment in the accident and emergency department
10. The Hopkins Competency Assessment Test: A brief method for evaluating patients' capacity to give informed consent
11. Informed consent in chronic schizophrenia?
12. Psychiatric consultation for competency to refuse medical treatment. A retrospective study of patient characteristics and outcome
13. Neuropsychological predictors of competency in Alzheimer's disease using a rational reasons legal standard
14. A guide to the assessment and care of the patient whose medical decision-making capacity is in question
15. Decision making in a schizophrenic population
16. Dementia and delirium
17. Informed consent in chronic schizophrenia
18. Mental health legislation is now a harmful anachronism
19. Capacity to make health care decisions: Its importance in clinical practice
20. Clinical and ethical implications of impaired executive control functions for patient autonomy