Decisional and Dispositional Capacity Determinations: The Role of Neuropsychiatric Illness and an Integrated Clinical Paradigm

Assessment of decisional capacity requires thorough clinical review of a patient ′s current psychiatric symptoms and cognitive processes. The assessment to determine the patient′s capacity for self-management post-discharge is a different clinical concept from decisional capacity. Standardized guidelines for capacity determinations (both for informed consent and for disposit ion) would be helpful to clinicians, patients and their caregivers.

Source: Psychosomatics - May 13, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: James A. Bourgeois, Mary Ann Cohen, Jennifer M. Erickson, Rebecca Weintraub Brendel Source Type: research