Abstract
Capacity to make one’s own medical decisions is an issue commonly encountered in the inpatient setting when working with the traumatically injured. In this chapter, the authors present a case of a man with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) to highlight a neuropsychological formulation approach for determining capacity, provide a framework to think through clinical capacity questions, and to raise practical suggestions to implement recommendations. Ethical implications regarding decisional capacity, outcome of the case after he left the hospital, and reflections about lessons learned and limitations are also discussed.
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Jamora, C., Ruff, R. (2016). Decisional Capacity in the Traumatically Injured. In: Macniven, J. (eds) Neuropsychological Formulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18338-1_11
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