¿Tiene este paciente capacidad de toma de decisiones médicas?

Laura L Sessums1, Hanna Zembrzuska, Jeffrey L Jackson

  • 1Section of General Internal Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20307, USA. laura.sessums@us.army.mil

JAMA
|July 28, 2011
PubMed
Resumen

La incapacidad para tomar decisiones médicas es común en pacientes hospitalizados, pero a menudo no es reconocida por los médicos. Se recomienda la Ayuda a la Evaluación de la Capacidad (ACE) para ayudar a los médicos a evaluar con precisión la capacidad del paciente.

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