Competency and common law: Why and how decision-making capacity criteria should be drawn from the capacity-determination process.

Competency and common law: why and how decision-making capacity criteria should be drawn from the capacity-determination process.

Determining competence to request physician-assisted suicide should be no more difficult than determining competence to refuse life-prolonging treatment. In both cases, criteria and procedures should be developed out of the process of actually making capacity determinations; they should not be promulgated a priori. Because patient demeanor plays a critical role in capacity determinations, it sh...

Should the decision-making process of reimbursing medicines be improved?

Decision-making capacity and competency in the elderly: a clinical and neuropsychological perspective.

With our ageing population, the number of older adults with cognitive impairment has also increased. There is both an acute and growing need for evidence-based assessments to identify their decision making capacity and competence. In the present article we (1) present definitions of decision-making capacity and competence, (2) review cognitive functions that are central to decision-making capac...

How should Rural Women's Enterprises Be Developed and Promoted?

This study was a qualitative research which was done by a case study approach. The samples were chosen from rural development experts of Hamedan Province during a snowball sampling process. The data were collected by the semistructured interviews. The data collection was done by faceto- face interviews, after the interview questions guide was determined. The theoretical saturation was attained ...

Decision-Making Should Be More Like Programming

Justify is an interactive “end-user development environment” for deliberation. Justify organizes discussions in a hierarchy of points, each expressing a single idea. Points have a rich ontology of types, such as pro or con, mathematical, or aesthetic arguments. “Programs” in this environment use inference rules to provide assessments that summarize groups of points. Interactive browsing modes s...