The stated aim of the Mental Capacity Act is to provide greater protection to those who may lose their mental capacities, particularly in terms of informed consent, patient affairs, advanced decisions and research. This article attempts to explore this new statute by way of examining the scope ...
This article considers what is meant by informed consent and the implications of the Mental Capacity Act in obtaining consent from vulnerable adults. It ex... A Dougall,J Fiske - 《British Dental Journal》 被引量: 71发表: 2008年 Mental incapacity in patients undergoing neuro-oncologic treatment...
Informed Consent in Psychiatric Practice Psychiatric patients, on some occasions, lack the capacity to take decisions on their mentalhealth care and treatment. Utmost care should be taken in dealing with such patients, to proceedfor their treatment after obtaining consent from ... C. Narayan - 《...
Informed ConsentOBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of mental capacity to make decisions on treatment in people from different diagnostic and legal groups admitted to psychiatric hospital. DESIGN: Cross sectional study. SETTING: General adult acute psychiatric inpatient units. PARTICIPANTS: 350 ...
The Mental Capacity Act (2005) regulates decision-making processes on behalf of adults who are unable to give informed consent due to a loss in mental capacity (be that from birth or due to an illness or injury at some point in their lives). Since the act’s implementation, the new Cour...
the activity of anticipating the next stimulus presentation might have been more prominent. In the context of the Global Workspace/Working Memory model (Baars,1988), this can be interpreted as selective attention, which due to a “constant-capacity storage mechanism” is limited to three to five...
Appendix II: Convention of human rights and biomedicine A ubiquitous point, throughout the text of the convention, is informed consent, one of the main achievements of the convention. Informed consent becomes the cornerstone of every medical act therein regulated: therapeutic interventions, o... AC...
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illness due to their severe symptoms and limited cognitive and mental capacity [8]. Online interventions have been increasingly utilized, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, largely due to their accessibility and anonymity. Zhou et al. found that 78% of online mental health interventions for ...
CAPACITY Purpose of Policy The purpose of this policy is to help embody the principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in the procedure of the Trust, specifically around the assessment of capacity and making of best interest decisions. It thus provides an overall framework for ...