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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"decision-making capacity"”.
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Assessing and improving knowledge of medical decision-making capacity
<p>Clinical judgments of capacity have implications for the rights of the individual being assessed. While supported decision-making is recommended, it is not clear whether laypeople have sufficient knowledge to advocate for maximizing the autonomy of the person they assist. This study developed …
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A brief screening instrument for use by lawyers to assess the capacity of older clients with memory deficits
… in recent years . Older people frequently face decisions that require the consultation of a lawyer, such as issues over wills and financial investments. Preventative law advocate lawyers act as therapeutic agents, preventing stress and discomfort in elderly clients making legal decisions. In …
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Physician satisfaction with informed consent process in psychiatric research
… whether to participate in a research study. Decision-making capacity might change in psychiatric patients during the informed consent process. Therefore, there may be some elements which are neglected during the informed consent process in psychiatric research. The purpose of this research …
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The Care of Hospitalized Intravenous Drug Users in 2019
… need to be re-evaluated. Ethically, the decision-making capacity of these patients is frequently called into question, and there is a difficult-to-strike balance between respecting their autonomy and acting with beneficence to provide the best care. There are also public health concerns …
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IN SUPPORT OF SPECIAL PROTECTIONS FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL DISORDERS IN RESEARCH: AN INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
… are more likely to have diminished autonomy and decision making capacity, either because of the effects of their mental disorder or due to stigmas surrounding mental disorders. Persons with mental disorders are faced with prejudice in society, and remain a disproportionately disadvantaged …
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BLM Land Use Planning in Western Oregon: A Case Study for Integrating Public Participation in Natural Resources Planning
… improve natural resources planning and decision-making. On an ad hoc basis, it has been shown that public participation improves the durability and sustainability of plans and decisions; it increases the technical, consensus-building, and decision-making capacity of the public; it …
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BLM Land Use Planning in Western Oregon: A Case Study for Integrating Public Participation in Natural Resources Planning
… improve natural resources planning and decision-making. On an ad hoc basis, it has been shown that public participation improves the durability and sustainability of plans and decisions; it increases the technical, consensus-building, and decision-making capacity of the public; it …
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Who’s Running the Farm? How a Sample of Kansas Farmers View Their Usage of Agricultural Operating Systems
… digitized farming with implications for on-farm decision-making. Part of the digitization is happening through corporate-managed decision support systems (DSS), which seeks to aid farmers in their on-farm decision-making by providing farms with access to data and means to automate their farm …
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Teachers' Perceptions of an Inclusive STEM High School
… results in a STEM setting, the processes and decisions that support the inclusive mission, and the development of positive relationships that benefit all stakeholders. This information supports existing research on teachers’ perceptions of STEM education as well as contributes to the …
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Women's knowledge systems and their potential contribution to leadership and socio-political transformation
… to the motivations, collegial relations and decision making capacity of women in leadership. A main stipulation of the research theoretical discussion is that current emergence of knowledge economies and societies, in environments of complexity and uncertainty, presents an opportune moment to …
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Climate change adaptation planning under uncertainty in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: a case study on institutional vulnerability, adaptive capacity and climate change governance
… of tools for practical planning responses by decision makers at the city level. This thesis questions the dominant assumptions about the capacity of institutions and potential of adaptive planning. It argues that achieving a balance between climate change impacts and local government …
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Judging by a Different Standard? Examining the Role of Rationality in Assessments of Mental Capacity
Decision-making capacity is an increasingly important medico-legal concept. The recent Mental Capacity Act employs a cognitive, process-based test of capacity, but in many psychiatric conditions pathological beliefs and values impair capacity even when the decision-making process is logically …
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What if I don’t want to live until the bitter end? Safeguarding the practice of Assisted Dying in the context of dementia
… preferences when they may no longer possess decision-making capacity. My research objective, therefore, is to explore whether a safeguard could be proposed which would provide guidance for individuals with dementia should they consider AD and for health professionals involved in their medical …
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Strengthening leadership through networking: a mixed method evaluation of a core component of the Emerging African Leaders Programme (EALP)
… programme endeavours to enhance the leadership capacity of emerging African leaders. The purpose of the EALP alumni network is to keep EALP alumni connected, enable them to have an ongoing dialogue and facilitate collaborations with the ultimate objective of making a contribution to addressing …
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Reputation-based Miner Node Selection in Blockchain-based Vehicular Networks
… infrastructure, data security, and intelligent decision-making capacity. Similarly, the networking for such systems can be provided by vehicular edge computing or vehicular ad-hoc network, which provides a required architecture for the communication between vehicles. The data transferred in such …
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End-of-life care supports and decision-making practices in specialist intellectual disability residential services
… and hospital services. In addition, the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act (ADM) (2015) is changing the way these individuals will be included in decision making across all aspects of their lives into the future. These changes have led to an increased interest in the end-of-life care of …
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An Enhanced Model for Parental Decision Making for Pediatric Care
… come enhanced ethical issues and challenging decisions. Currently within pediatric medicine, decision-making processes are primarily guided by the models of adult surrogate decision making, in particular substituted judgment and best interests models. The substituted judgment model focuses on …