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Autor/inn/en | Steinberg, Alan; und weitere |
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Titel | Patient Participation in Treatment Decision-Making in the Nursing Home: The Issue of Competence. |
Quelle | In: Gerontologist, 26 (1986) 4, S.362-66 |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
Schlagwörter | Competence; Decision Making Skills; Institutionalized Persons; Medical Services; Nursing Homes; Older Adults; Participative Decision Making; Patients |
Abstract | 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) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2004/1/01 |