Assessment of patient competence for making decisions
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GJ Palacios, P Pinto, O Marquez, B Herreros
Revista Clínica Española …, 2020
Elsevier
For patients to be able to make decisions autonomously (and to grant informed consent), they must have information, understanding, freedom and willingness, with competence a prerequisite for autonomy. Clinicians are often faced with patients lacking competence to make decisions but detect less than half of such cases and often inadequately assess the patients' competence. This article offers guidelines for assessing the competence of patients for whom there are doubts about their ability to make decisions concerning their health. The …