Overestimating patients' capacity

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 01 Nov 2011 English Publisher:Royal College of PsychiatristsJournal:British Journal of Psychiatry, volume 199, pages 355-356 (issn: 0007-1250, eissn: 1472-1465,

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Authors: Peter, Lepping;

doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.111.094938

pmid: 22045941

Overestimating patients' capacity

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Abstract

SummaryClinicians regularly overestimate patients' capacity to make decisions. This may jeopardise their autonomous decision-making. It may lead to poor clinical outcomes for patients and has potential adverse legal consequences for clinicians. There is a need to use the legal principles of the Mental Capacity Act more rigorously.

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Informed Consent, Wales, England, Decision Making, Legislation as Topic, Humans, Mental Competency

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