La evaluación de la «capacidad de la persona»: en la práctica actual y en el contexto del consentimiento informado

The decision making capacity of patients will acquire special relevance with the introduction of informed consent in clinical practice and the new normative that will appear in the future when the bills about health services are approved in the Congress. This paper reviews the concept of decision ma...

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Autores principales: Bórquez E,Gladys, Raineri B,Gina, Bravo L,Mireya
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Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2004
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720040010000132004-12-15La evaluación de la «capacidad de la persona»: en la práctica actual y en el contexto del consentimiento informadoBórquez E,GladysRaineri B,GinaBravo L,Mireya Decision making Ethics, medical Informed consent The decision making capacity of patients will acquire special relevance with the introduction of informed consent in clinical practice and the new normative that will appear in the future when the bills about health services are approved in the Congress. This paper reviews the concept of decision making capacity in the context of health care and its legal background in Chile. The main problems that arise from the comprehension, use and assessment of decision making capacity, are analyzed. The assessment of this capacity is, in most cases, subjective since there are no criteria, protocols or standards to be used. In courts of justice, the «exercise capacity» assessment is requested to experts. These specialized physicians will evaluate the mental health of the subject and its implications in the capacity to make decisions. In practice, it is difficult to integrate the concept of capacity from the law or health care perspective. It is concluded that the elaboration of criteria, standards and procedures to evaluate the decision capacity of patients, is mandatory (Rev Méd Chile 2004; 132: 1243-8)info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.132 n.10 20042004-10-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872004001000013es10.4067/S0034-98872004001000013
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language Spanish / Castilian
topic Decision making
Ethics, medical
Informed consent
spellingShingle Decision making
Ethics, medical
Informed consent
Bórquez E,Gladys
Raineri B,Gina
Bravo L,Mireya
La evaluación de la «capacidad de la persona»: en la práctica actual y en el contexto del consentimiento informado
description The decision making capacity of patients will acquire special relevance with the introduction of informed consent in clinical practice and the new normative that will appear in the future when the bills about health services are approved in the Congress. This paper reviews the concept of decision making capacity in the context of health care and its legal background in Chile. The main problems that arise from the comprehension, use and assessment of decision making capacity, are analyzed. The assessment of this capacity is, in most cases, subjective since there are no criteria, protocols or standards to be used. In courts of justice, the «exercise capacity» assessment is requested to experts. These specialized physicians will evaluate the mental health of the subject and its implications in the capacity to make decisions. In practice, it is difficult to integrate the concept of capacity from the law or health care perspective. It is concluded that the elaboration of criteria, standards and procedures to evaluate the decision capacity of patients, is mandatory (Rev Méd Chile 2004; 132: 1243-8)
author Bórquez E,Gladys
Raineri B,Gina
Bravo L,Mireya
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Raineri B,Gina
Bravo L,Mireya
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title La evaluación de la «capacidad de la persona»: en la práctica actual y en el contexto del consentimiento informado
title_short La evaluación de la «capacidad de la persona»: en la práctica actual y en el contexto del consentimiento informado
title_full La evaluación de la «capacidad de la persona»: en la práctica actual y en el contexto del consentimiento informado
title_fullStr La evaluación de la «capacidad de la persona»: en la práctica actual y en el contexto del consentimiento informado
title_full_unstemmed La evaluación de la «capacidad de la persona»: en la práctica actual y en el contexto del consentimiento informado
title_sort la evaluación de la «capacidad de la persona»: en la práctica actual y en el contexto del consentimiento informado
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