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The law is simple: under section 3 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, a person has capacity if she can understand relevant information, retain it, use or weigh it to make a decision, and communicate that decision.
For example, language disturbs may affect the capacity to understand relevant information or to express one's wishes; memory disturbs may affect the capacity to retain the information to make an informed choice in clinical practice and in research.
They help patients to understand relevant information, to clarify their attitudes towards potential benefits and harms, and to aid communication.
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To participate, they will be able to: (1) understand (relevant) information about the decision to be made; (2) retain this; (3) use or weigh the information as part of the decision-making process and (4) communicate their decision.
The hallmarks of capacity assessment are to check if the patient has ability to understand relevant information and to reason about risks and benefits of potential options and can appreciate the nature of his/her situation and the consequences of his/her choice and last but not least is able to express a choice.
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The regulations state that, to assess capacity, the caregiver is obliged to make sure that the patient understands relevant information, is able to appreciate and understand the consequences of not initiating or of discontinuing the treatment, has had enough time for deliberation, and adheres to the decision after deliberation [ 23].
Although it would be possible to include an option to extrapolate model results, we believe EPIPOI is a tool to better explore and understand relevant descriptive information in empirical data.
In order to verify how VAO Checker could help users explore and understand relevant accessibility information, we conducted a usability test.
Occasionally, a patient or a study participant is known to possess and understand the relevant information anyhow, say, because she is a physician specializing in the field.
The physician thus has to make sure that the patient has the ability to understand the relevant information, to grasp the medical consequences of the situation, to weigh up different treatment options and to communicate a choice [ 1].
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