Many face inequalities, lack decision-making power or are socially excluded.
Women and girls lack decision-making autonomy and parents, husbands and in-laws make decisions for them throughout their lives.
For instance, fisheries organisations are most well established but lack decision-making functions.
International guidelines also differ on the allowable risk levels for studies involving adults who lack decision-making capacity [55].
(The authors described their report as covering protection of human research participants at UM with "special attention" to adults who may lack decision-making capacity).
Because most patients in the ICU lack decision-making capacity, WhWd discussions are often shared between physicians, nurses, and family members or relatives acting as surrogates and representing the patient's values and preferences [21].
However, a person may lack decision-making capacity but nonetheless possess the proper starting points of decision-making, so that a surrogate could still reconstruct deeply personal and idiosyncratic choices on the person's behalf.
Indeed, it is considered axiomatic in most theoretical work on decisional capacity that 'clinicians should not conclude that patients lack decision-making capacity just because they make a decision contrary to medical advice' (Ganzini 2004, 264).
Uncertainty regarding the degree to which persons with schizophrenia may lack decision-making capacity, and what the predictors of capacity may be led us to examine the relationship between psychopathology, neurocognitive functioning, and decision-making capacity in a large sample of persons with schizophrenia at entry into a clinical trial.
Conversely, because the disease in different people uniquely affects intellectual functions, some patients in the earliest stages of the illness lack decision-making capacity.
Women lack decision-making power in various matters including how, when and where to have sex.
