Assessing Decision Making Capacity (DMC)  <br> <br>

Decision-Making Capacity  <br> <br>

Learning Objectives <br> <br>

Define decisional capacity ?  <br>
Identify patients at risk for impaired decisional capacity ?  <br>
Know how to assess decisional capacity <br> <br>

What is decisional capacity?  <br>
What percentage of medical inpatients lack decisional capacity?  <br>
What are some risk factors for impaired decisional capacity? <br> <br>

What is Decision-Making Capacity, and how does it differ from Competence?  <br>
What is Informed Consent?  <br>
When is Explicit Assessment of Decisional Capacity Required?  <br>
Procedures for Assessing Decision-Making Capacity  <br>
What if a potential study participant fails to demonstrate adequate decisional capacity?  <br>
Do you need to assess this patient’s decisional capacity?  Which patients need formal assessment? <br>
How do you assess decisional capacity?  What elements are involved? <br>
Once you have decided that a patient lacks decisional capacity for a particular decision, does he necessarily lack it for all decisions? <br>
If the patient lacks decisional capacity, what do you do next? <br> <br>

How is decision-making capacity relevant to medicine? <br>
What are the standards for assessing decision-making capacity? <br>
Who decides whether a patient has decision-making capacity? <br>
How do you determine whether a patient has decision-making capacity? <br>
How are decisions made for patients who lack decision-making capacity? <br> <br>