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<p><P>One of the most challenging tasks facing clinicians today is the assessment of patients' capacities to consent to treatment. The protection of a patient's right to decide, as well as the protection of incompetent patients from the potential harm of their decisions, rests largely on clinicians' abilities to judge patients' capacities to decide what treatment they will receive. However, confusing laws and the complicated ethical issues surrounding the concept of competence to consent have made the process of competence assessment intimidating for many clinicians. Health professionals&#151;physicians, medical students, residents, nurses, and mental health practitioners&#151;have long needed a concise guidebook that translates the issues for practice. That is what this book accomplishes. <br>This volume is the product of an eight-year study of patients' capacities to make treatment decisions&#151;the most comprehensive research of its kind. The authors describe the place of competence in the doctrine of informed consent, analyze the elements of decision-making, and show how assessments of competence to consent to treatment can be conducted within varied general medical and psychi

Author

Grisso, Thomas, Appelbaum, Paul S.

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195103724

Subjects

Medical, Medicine

Rating

4.5 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14