Capacity for Preferences:Respecting Patients with Compromised Decision‐Making
Capacity for Preferences:Respecting Patients with Compromised Decision‐Making is a scholarly work by Mark Christopher Navin, published in 2018 in ''Hastings Center Report''. The main subjects of the publication include Medical decision-making, informed consent, psychology, decision making, and palliative care. The authors argue that, even when there is input from a surrogate, patient preferences should be an additional source of guidance for decisions about patients who lack decision‐making capacity.the authors' proposal builds on other efforts to help patients who lack decision‐making capacity provide input into decisions about their care.