Medical decision-making capacity in patients with malignant glioma

Engaging patients in medical decision making.

Decision-making capacity for treatment in psychiatric and medical in-patients: cross-sectional, comparative study†

BACKGROUND Is the nature of decision-making capacity (DMC) for treatment significantly different in medical and psychiatric patients? AIMS To compare the abilities relevant to DMC for treatment in medical and psychiatric patients who are able to communicate a treatment choice. METHOD A secondary analysis of two cross-sectional studies of consecutive admissions: 125 to a psychiatric hospital...

Does this patient have medical decision-making capacity?

CONTEXT Evaluation of the capacity of a patient to make medical decisions should occur in the context of specific medical decisions when incapacity is considered. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of incapacity and assessment accuracy in adult medicine patients without severe mental illnesses. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE and EMBASE (from their inception through April 2011) and bibliographies o...

Medical Patients’ Treatment Decision Making Capacity: A Report from a General Hospital in Greece

This study aimed to assess the decision-making capacity for treatment of patients hospitalized in an internal medicine ward of a General Hospital in Greece, and to examine the views of treating physicians regarding patients' capacity. All consecutive admissions to an internal medicine ward within a month were evaluated. A total of 134 patients were approached and 78 patients were interviewed wi...

From Medical Decision-making to Medical-cost-comparative Decision-making.

WHEN A PHYSICIAN GATHERS A PATIENT’S history, runs diagnostic tests and performs an evaluation, he or she is performing medicine’s most fundamental act: medical decision-making. Patient care is all about physicians bringing their education, training and personal experience to bear with a particular patient and his or her particular symptoms, disease or injury. Frequently, the course of treatmen...