Variable judgments of decisional capacity in cognitively impaired research subjects

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1893-1897

  Stocking, Carol B ^a,b   Hougham, Gavin W ^a   Danner, Deborah D ^c   Patterson, Marion B ^d   Whitehouse, Peter J ^d   Sachs, Greg A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decisional capacity; Dementia research; Ethics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; ETHICS, RESEARCH; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MIDDLE AGED; PROXY; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESEARCH SUBJECTS;

EID: 53149090575     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.01922.x     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Grisso T, Applebaum PS. Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment: A Guide for Physicians and Other Health Professionals. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
2. Marson DC, Ingram KK, Cody HA et al. Assessing the competency of patients with Alzheimer's disease under different legal standards: A prototype instrument. Arch Neurol 1995 52 : 949 954.
3. Applebaum PS, Grisso T. The MacArthur treatment competence study, I: Mental illness and competence to consent to treatment. Law Human Behav 1995 19 : 105 126.
4. Janofsky JS, MaCarthy RJ, Folstein MG. The Hopkins Competence Assessment Test: A brief method of evaluating patients' capacity to give informed consent. Hosp Community Psychiatry 1992 43 : 132 136.
5. Kim SYH, Karlawish JHT, Caine ED. Current state of research on decision-making competence of cognitively impaired elderly persons. Am J Geriatric Psychiatry 2002 10 : 151 165.
6. Dunn LB, Nowrangi MA, Palmer BW et al. Assessing decisional capacity for clinical research or treatment: A review of instruments. Am J Psychiatry 2006 163 : 1323 1334.
7. Brauner DJ, Merel SE. How a model based on linguistic theory can improve the assessment of decision-making capacity for persons with dementia. J Clin Ethic 2006 17 : 139 148.
8. Stocking CB, Hougham GW, Danner DD et al. Speaking of research advance directives. Neurology 2006 66 : 1361 1366.
9. Stocking CB, Hougham GW, Danner DD et al. Empirical assessment of a research advance directive for persons with dementia and their proxies. J Am Geriatr Soc 2007 55 : 1609 1612.
10. Applebaum PS, Grisso T. Assessing patients' capacities to consent to treatment. New Engl J Med 1988 319 : 1635 1638.
11. Landis RJ, Koch GG. The measurement of observed agreement for categorical data. Biometrics 1977 33 : 159 174.
12. Drane JF. Competency to give informed consent. A model for making clinical assessments. JAMA 1984 252 : 925 927.