Objective: The need to evaluate decisional capacity among patients in treatment settings as
well as subjects in clinical research settings has increasingly gained attention. Decisional …

BackgroundMental capacity is central to legal and ethical debates on the use of compulsion
in psychiatry. AimsTo describe the clinical epidemiology of mental incapacity in patients with …

OBJECTIVE: To compare results of a specific capacity assessment administered by the
treating clinician, and a Standardized Mini‐Mental Status Examination (SMMSE), with the …

Increased scrutiny of informed consent calls for further research into decision making by
patients who may be at risk for impairments. We review interventions designed to improve …

Background Psychiatric disorders can pose problems in the assessment of decision-making
capacity (DMC). This is so particularly where psychopathology is seen as the extreme end of …

It is often necessary for neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, and other healthcare
professionals to assess an individual's capacity to consent to treatment related to healthcare …

Older adults need to maintain strong decision‐making capabilities as they age. However, we
know little about how age‐related physical and psychological changes affect older adults' …

The use of standardized tools for the assessment of competency is vital, given that informal
assessments performed by physicians are idiosyncratic and unreliable [Marson, DC …

Sugarman et al discuss their retrieval of published empirical research on informed consent
as part of an effort to ensure that patients and research subjects within the Veterans Affairs …

Background. This study investigates the competence of patients with dementia, depression
and schizophrenia to make treatment decisions. The outcome of an objective test instrument …