Assertion: autonomy's capacity | /r/CapableOf | make decision
Facets:
value: independently
type: MANNER
value: after personal reflection
type: TEMPORAL
value: in question
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Where patients lack the capacity to make a decision, it follows necessarily that decisions must be made on their behalf.
text: The personal capacity to consider alternatives, make choices and act without undue influence or interference from others.
text: Although on arrival at the emergency department she presented her advance directive refusing treatment, she was assessed as having the capacity to make the decision in question so the directive was not required.
text: Secondly, autonomy as the capacity to make such decisions through one's own independence of mind and after personal reflection.
text: The philosopher Immanuel Kant identified several key elements of autonomy, including both the right and the capacity to make one’s own decisions independently, after personal reflection, and without interference.
text: Another distinction that can be made is between autonomy as a bare capacity to make decisions and of autonomy as an ideal.
text: Other areas use a mental capacity approach that requires a separate functional assessment rather than the diagnosis alone to evaluate the individual’s capacity to make decisions.
text: Persons with a psychiatric condition such as delirium or clinical depression may lack capacity to make end-of-life decisions.
text: Persons with the mental capacity to make end-of-life decisions may refuse treatment with the understanding that it may shorten their life.
text: To what degree should family members or legal guardians have full capacity to make decisions or give consent on behalf of those under their care?
text: The capacity and freedom to make decisions implies that the individual possesses both power and responsibility to make accurate and considered decisions.