Sentence examples for competency to consent from inspiring English sources
Competency to consent to hospitalization has important clinical and ethical implications.
In this study, the most common reasons for not being swabbed for HIV testing included early release from the facility (presumably due to posting bond), failing to demonstrate medical competency to consent to testing, and choosing not to be HIV tested.
All participants will be over the age of 18 years and will have competency to consent.
However, children and adolescents are still developing, both physically and mentally [ 14, 23- 25], they may have reduced competency to consent [ 26, 27], and bariatric surgery may change their life in a substantial way.
Thus, it is required that health-care professionals take responsibility for initiating these conversations, based on the individual patient's need for information and involving families according to the patient's competency to consent, thereby preparing for a shared decision-making in a trusting relationship.
Addressing these obstacles encourages the discussion on children's competency, in which the most prominent question concerns the lack of a clear operationalization of children's competence to consent.
The recruiting nurse will assess competency of people with HD to consent.
If Gillick competency to presumed consent cannot be invoked, it would permit taking organs from a minor in cases where no autonomous adult authorised to object to such a measure were available.
The authors sought to determine whether patients admitted to a psychiatric ward as incompetent to consent to hospitalization improve their competency during hospitalization.
