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Decision-Making Capacity and Competency

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Decision-making capacity (hereafter, “capacity”)

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  • Dreer LE, Devivo MJ, Novack TA, Krzywanski S, Marson DC. Cognitive predictors of medical decision-making capacity in traumatic brain injury. Rehabil Psychol. 2008;53(4):486–97.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

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  1. Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Kristen L. Triebel, Lindsay M. Niccolai & Daniel C. Marson

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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  2. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Sigmund Hough

  3. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Stephen T. Wegener

  4. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    William Stiers

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Triebel, K.L., Niccolai, L.M., Marson, D.C. (2017). Decision-Making Capacity and Competency. In: Budd, M., Hough, S., Wegener, S., Stiers, W. (eds) Practical Psychology in Medical Rehabilitation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34034-0_38

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