Patient Participation in Treatment Decision-Making in the Nursing Home: The Issue of Competence.

Steinberg, Alan; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ343437

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1986

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Patient Participation in Treatment Decision-Making in the Nursing Home: The Issue of Competence.

Steinberg, Alan; And Others

Gerontologist, v26 n4 p362-66 Aug 1986

The ethical primacy of patient involvement in treatment decision-making requires that more attention be paid to assessment of a patient's competency to make treatment decisions. Makes recommendations to increase sensitivity to this issue with significantly impaired elderly nursing home patients and to improve existing decision-making procedures. (Author/ABB)

Descriptors: Competence, Decision Making Skills, Institutionalized Persons, Medical Services, Nursing Homes, Older Adults, Participative Decision Making, Patients

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General

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Language: English

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