Evaluación de la capacidad del paciente para emitir un consentimiento válido: ¿es posible la estandarización?

• Sebastián Robert B ^[1] ; Juan I Reculé ^[1] ; Juan A Prato ^[1]
  1. [1] Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

     Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

     Santiago, Chile

     
• Localización: Revista Médica de Chile, ISSN-e 0034-9887, Vol. 144, Nº. 10, 2016, págs. 1336-1342
• Idioma: español
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  • Assessment of patients’ capacity to give a valid consent
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  • Autonomy is an inherent condition of every ethical act. This attribution is expressed, when decisions are made, as capacity. Physician-patient alliance is defied when there is a reasonable doubt of patients’ ability to make a choice, an extraordinarily complex scenario. As a response, in the last few decades multiple tools have been developed aiming to determine in a standardized fashion whether capacity is present or not. In the present article, we present a classification of the most well-known tools and discuss their usefulness, the implications for standardization of capacity, and make recommendations for their use, based in evidence.