An Evaluation of the Decision-Making Capacity Assessment Model

An Evaluation of the Decision-Making Capacity Assessment Model

BACKGROUND The Decision-Making Capacity Assessment (DMCA) Model includes a best-practice process and tools to assess DMCA, and implementation strategies at the organizational and assessor levels to support provision of DMCAs across the care continuum. A Developmental Evaluation of the DMCA Model was conducted. METHODS A mixed methods approach was used. Survey (N = 126) and focus group (N = 49...

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making

‘Radical Interpretation’ and the Assessment of Decision-Making Capacity

The assessment of patients' decision-making capacity (DMC) has become an important area of clinical practice, and since it provides the gateway for a consideration of non-consensual treatment, has major ethical implications. Tests of DMC such as under the Mental Capacity Act (2005) for England and Wales aim at supporting autonomy and reducing unwarranted paternalism by being 'procedural', focus...

An Entrepreneurial Decision-Making Model: A Case Study of‏ ‏the ‎Electronic Business of Tehran

E-businesses play a critical role in today's knowledge-based economies. Despite their ‎increasing portion, e-businesses experience high rates of failure. Therefore, it is of prime ‎importance to identify their decision-making activities encountering outer competitive forces ‎and their internal structural events. In this study, through using the Grounded Theory approach, we ‎analyze interviews c...

A generalized model in the performance evaluation of decision making sub-units