Needless to say, the family's response left room for a lot of uncomfortable questions about the agency and decision-making competence of children.
For example, the results of psychometric studies to determine the decision-making competence of patients with dementia could be relevant to research ethics.
Our aim was therefore to evaluate the theoretical, practical and decision-making competence of nursing students and to identify factors associated with their medication competence at the beginning and end of their education.
Making a competence catalogue of ELSA researchers making it easy for natural scientists and technology developers to identify interesting partners was suggested as an activity in the new network.
Wherever a direct appeal has been made to the competence of my colleague, Mrs Georgieva, we will provide you with written answers, for example, with regard to the status of talks and negotiations with Russia on the question of information and monitoring.
The authors sought to determine the feasibility, acceptability, and utility of this new framework in making judgments of progressive competence, its implementation within programs, and the influence on curricula.
Even so, they had planned a campaign where they would make the character and competence of the Labour leader an election issue.
[2] The current complex healthcare system makes me doubt the competence of my doctors, nurses and other caregivers.
The lack of valid and reliable measures of adherence and competence makes the assessment of their impact on outcomes difficult.
Research has also shown that we seem to be more willing to forgive — and trust again — those who make errors of competence rather than of character, Professor Dirks said.
