This leads to a lengthy discussion of what the authors call "decision-making competence" and its standards, as well as the specific 'decision-making capacities' that are said to underlie what they call "decision competence".
Issue 6. Do the age and the (decision) competence of the patients differ?
Our result fit with other findings that carers with knowledge of the facts of dementia demonstrate decreased rates of depression, more realistic expectations of outcomes, increased feelings of decision competence, and greater use of positive comparisons [ 25, 26].
Optimal involvement was facilitated by positioning them as capable of influencing decisions, assessing decision-specific competence, clarifying values and understanding the significance of relationships and context.
Even if we establish a child's decision-making competence regarding the medical decision at hand, a dual consent procedure will do justice to developmental aspects of children and the specific characteristics of the parent-child dyad.
Viklund et al. showed that five categories are important for decision making competence: cognitive maturity, personal qualities, experience, social network and parental involvement.
Whatever the decision, adequate competence and knowledge of blood purification technology and its principles remain mandatory before high-volume therapy is applied.
While in other micro systems such as maternity or intensive care the nurses and doctors were more preoccupied with rapid decision making, competence, and complying with professional procedures as a basis for providing high quality care.
Decision making competence of persons with dementia was affected by the culture of care, the staff's behaviour and budgetary and structural constraints registered in a study by Helgesen [ 80].
Decision-making capacity (or decision-making competence), as it has been conceptualised in law and bioethics, is a compound of abilities typically divided into four sub-capacities: understanding, appreciation, reasoning, and choice [ 4, 5].
Open-ended questions were asked such as how they assessed decision-making competence, what facilitated or hindered the person's decision making and their experiences of collaboration and coordination of services.
