Abstract
An impaired ability to make treatment decisions is commonplace but often overlooked among medical and psychiatric patients. Evaluation of a patient’s ability to meaningfully make treatment decisions is a complex exercise in clinical judgment, requiring careful attention to the effect of the patient’s symptoms and the contextual features of the specific decision at hand. This article is a broad overview of the ethical and clinical aspects of decisional capacity that every physician needs to be familiar with to negotiate this challenging aspect of medical practice.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 417-421 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Psychiatric Annals |
Volume | 45 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2015 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychiatry and Mental health