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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care

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Published on: February 16, 2011

Competence, practical rationality and what a patient values.

Jillian Craigie¹

¹Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, School of Law, King's College London, Strand WC2R 2LS. jillian.craigie@kcl.ac.uk

|January 6, 2010

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Patient autonomy allows refusing treatment, but competence is key. This study explores using practical rationality to assess decision-making in anorexia cases, potentially justifying involuntary treatment when harm is imminent.

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Area of Science:

Bioethics
Philosophy of Medicine
Clinical Psychology

Background:

Patient autonomy grants the right to refuse medical treatment.
Competence assessments are crucial when patients refuse life-saving interventions.
Evaluating the reasoning behind treatment decisions is a proposed enhancement to competence assessments.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine the role of evaluative judgments in patient competence assessments.
To apply theories of practical rationality to the case of anorexia nervosa and treatment refusal.
To develop a theoretical framework for justifying involuntary treatment in specific clinical scenarios.

Main Methods:

Analysis of existing theories of practical rationality.
Case study examination of a competent anorexic patient refusing treatment.
Application of decision-making criteria to patient's guiding commitments.

Main Results:

Standard competence criteria align with the goals of practical decision-making.
The same criterion can be applied to evaluate a patient's decision-guiding commitments.
Practical rationality provides a framework for assessing competence in complex cases.

Conclusions:

A specific understanding of practical rationality can justify involuntary treatment for anorexia.
Competence assessments should consider the rationality of a patient's decision-making process.
This framework offers a nuanced approach to overriding patient autonomy in cases of severe self-harm.