Research Catalog

Title

Assessing competence to consent to treatment : a guide for physicians and other health professionals / Thomas Grisso, Paul S. Applebaum.

Author

Grisso, Thomas.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

Appelbaum, Paul S.

Description

xi, 211 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

• Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment will benefit a wide array of medical practitioners - including physicians, medical students, residents, nurses, and other allied health professionals - who need to assess the mental competence of patients in their everyday practice. It will also interest ethicists and moral philosophers, as well as geriatricians and clinical psychologists working with cognitively impaired patients.
• The book explains how assessments should be conducted and offers detailed, practice-tested interview guidelines to assist medical practitioners in this task. Numerous case studies illustrate real-life applications of the concepts and methods discussed. Grisso and Appelbaum also explore the often difficult process of making judgments about competence and describe what to do when patients' capacities are limited.
• This volume is the product of an eight-year study of patients' capacities to make treatment decisions - the most comprehensive research of its kind. The authors describe the place of competence in the doctrine of informed consent, analyze the elements of decision making, and show how assessments of competence to consent to treatment can be conducted within varied general medical and psychiatric treatment settings.

Subject

• Decision Making
• Informed Consent
• Informed consent (Medical law)
• Intelligence tests
• Mental Competency
• Patient Acceptance of Health Care
• Patient Participation
• Patient participation
• Therapeutics > Decision making

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-171) and index.

Contents

1. Why Competence Is Important: The Doctrine of Informed Consent -- 2. Thinking About Competence -- 3. Abilities Related to Competence -- 4. When Patients' Decision Making Should Be Assessed -- 5. Assessing Patients' Capacities to Consent to Treatment -- 6. Using the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool - Treatment -- 7. Making Judgments About Patients' Competence -- 8. Substitute Decision Making for Incompetent Patients -- App. Manual for the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool - Treatment (MacCAT-T).

ISBN

0195103726 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97026915

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries