Mental Competency

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Advance Directives and the Personal Identity Problem 
  • An Ethical and Legal Framework for Physicians as Surrogate Decision-Makers for Their Patients. 
  • Assessing competency for concealed-weapons permits--the physician's role. 
  • Brain trauma, PET scans and forensic complexity. 
  • Cognitively Intact and Happy Life Expectancy in the United States. 
  • Commentary: Incorporation of competence instruments into clinical practice. 
  • Competence to complete psychiatric advance directives: effects of facilitated decision making. 
  • Deciding for Others 
  • Deciding to terminate treatment: a practical guide for physicians. 
  • Determining when impairment constitutes incapacity for informed consent in schizophrenia research. 
  • Diagnostic performance of short portable mental status questionnaire for screening dementia among patients attending cognitive assessment clinics in Singapore. 
  • Easy-to-Read Informed Consent Form for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Clinical Trials: Results from the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network 1205 Study. 
  • Gender and Malingering in Defendants Deemed Incompetent to Stand Trial. 
  • Getting meaningful informed consent from older adults: a structured literature review of empirical research. 
  • How should we implement psychiatric advance directives? Views of consumers, caregivers, mental health providers and researchers. 
  • Impact of Cognitive Impairment Across Specialties: Summary of a Report From the U13 Conference Series. 
  • Incorporating Geriatric Assessment into a Nephrology Clinic: Preliminary Data from Two Models of Care. 
  • Informed consent for research in Borderline Personality Disorder. 
  • Informing Federal Policy on Firearm Restrictions for Veterans with Fiduciaries: Risk Indicators in the Post-Deployment Mental Health Study. 
  • Involving children in research 
  • Licensing Surrogate Decision-Makers. 
  • Life events and personality predicting loneliness among centenarians: findings from the Georgia Centenarian Study. 
  • Literacy and informed consent: a case for literacy screening in glaucoma research. 
  • Longitudinal consent-related abilities among research participants with schizophrenia: results from the CATIE study. 
  • Navigating Academic Law in Competency Decisions. 
  • Obtaining waivers of parental consent: A strategy endorsed by gay, bisexual, and queer adolescent males for health prevention research. 
  • Perceptions of Competence, Strength, and Age Influence Voters to Select Leaders with Lower-Pitched Voices. 
  • Physician Beliefs about Physical and Mental Competency of Patients Applying for Concealed Weapon Permits. 
  • Physician attitudes and experience with permit applications for concealed weapons. 
  • Prohibition of Persons With Mental Illness From Gun Ownership Under Tyler. 
  • Psychiatric advance directives and social workers: an integrative review. 
  • Risk factors for hospital admission among older persons with newly diagnosed heart failure: findings from the Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Self-selection factors in the participation of mental health professionals in competency for execution evaluations. 
  • Special care unit research: ethical issues. 
  • The concept of voluntary consent. 
  • The effect of numeracy level on completeness of home blood pressure monitoring. 
  • The ethics of research on deep brain stimulation for depression: decisional capacity and therapeutic misconception. 
  • The limits of proxy decisionmaking for incompetents. 
  • Treatment decisions for terminally ill patients: physicians' legal defensiveness and knowledge of medical law. 
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  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma