{"title":"Medical Law \u0026 Legislation","description":"\u003cp\u003e Title:Books\u0026gt;\u0026gt;Law\u0026gt;\u0026gt;Health \u0026amp; Medical Law\u0026gt;\u0026gt;Medical Law \u0026amp; Legislation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Handle:books-law-health-medical-law-medical-law-legislation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Children :\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"0195103726-assessing_competence_to_consent_to_treatment_a_guide_for_physicians_and_other_health_professionals","title":"Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment: A Guide for Physicians and Other Health Professionals","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most challenging tasks facing clinicians today is the assessment of patients' capacities to consent to treatment. The protection of a patient's right to decide, as well as the protection of incompetent patients from the potential harm of their decisions, rests largely on clinicians' abilities to judge patients' capacities to decide what treatment they will receive. However, confusing laws and the complicated ethical issues surrounding the concept of competence to consent have made the process of competence assessment intimidating for many clinicians. Health professionals—physicians, medical students, residents, nurses, and mental health practitioners—have long needed a concise guidebook that translates the issues for practice. That is what this book accomplishes. \u003cbr\u003eThis 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. 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. \u003cbr\u003eA timely, practical handbook relevant to every medical specialty, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e Douglas E. Tucker \u003cp\u003eThis is a practical, clinician-oriented guide to the assessment of competence to consent to treatment. Its purpose is to provide some clarity and guidelines for caregivers in a complex and confusing area, in which the stakes can be enormous (often life-and-death) but the standards to be applied are often too abstract and inconsistent to be of much help. This book thus serves an important clinical need, and it meets its objective admirably. As stated in the title, this book was written for the broad group of physicians and other health professionals, but it will be particularly valuable for those working \"\"in the trenches\"\" in critical care, and geriatric and mental health settings. Both authors are well known and respected authorities in forensic mental health, and have written extensively on the capacity to make treatment decisions. The book is relatively small and short, and is not illustrated except for a half-dozen tables and a data collection form. It has only 37 references, but this is a deliberately succinct and carefully chosen list of pertinent, clinically useful sources. The appendix contains the format, procedure, and data recording form for the MacCAT-T (MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool-Treatment), a semistructured interview instrument developed by the authors and designed to systematically elicit and organize information about decision-making abilities. This is a very practical and useful book for any clinician who provides treatment to patients for whom competence to consent is an issue. It is quite user-friendly, with convenient chapter summaries and many illustrative clinical vignettes. It will be more helpful to the busy practitioner facing real life treatmentdilemmas than to the ivory tower academic. 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