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Decision-Making Capacity
Oleh:
Derse, Arthur R.
Jenis:
Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi:
Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees
,
page 55-62.
Topik:
Elements of Decision-Making Capacity
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Diferentiation of Decision-Making Capacity
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Decision-Making Capacity Characteristics
;
Determination of Decision-Making Capacity
Fulltext:
Decision-Making Capacity.pdf
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Decision-making capacity is the ability to make decisions about medical care. he presence of this ability to make decisions about medical care is crucial to the principle of autonomy in bioethics. Autonomy supports the ethical right of individuals to make decisions about their medical care. Although informed consent is essential to the exercise of autonomous decision making, informed consent rests not only upon the information needed to make a decision, but also upon the capacity of the individual to make a medical decision. hus, individuals must possess decision-making capacity in order to exercise their right to make autonomous decisions about their medical care. Individuals who are unable to make autonomous decisions due to conditions such as dementia, delirium, or coma, cannot exercise their legal right to make these decisions. heir medical decisions must be made by others, based on either what the patient would have wanted under the circumstances, or what is best for the patient. hose who are unable to make decisions because they have never possessed decision-making capacity due to developmental disability, or because they are too young to have developed it, will need a determination of what medical course of action, if any, is in their best interests.
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