 Mental Competency
"Mental Competency" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The ability to understand the nature and effect of the act in which the individual is engaged. (From Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed).
| Descriptor ID |
D016743
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.590 F02.410 I01.880.604.583.530 N03.706.535.625
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| Concept/Terms |
Mental Competency- Mental Competency
- Mental Competence
- Competence, Mental
- Competency, Mental
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Mental Competency" by people in this website by year, and whether "Mental Competency" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1988 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1992 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1994 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1995 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 1996 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 1997 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 1999 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2003 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2004 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2006 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2008 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2015 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mental Competency" by people in Profiles.
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DeMartino ES, Sperry BP, Doyle CK, Chor J, Kramer DB, Dudzinski DM, Mueller PS. US State Regulation of Decisions for Pregnant Women Without Decisional Capacity. JAMA. 2019 04 23; 321(16):1629-1631.
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Teven CM, Gottlieb LJ. The Four-Quadrant Approach to Ethical Issues in Burn Care. AMA J Ethics. 2018 Jun 01; 20(1):595-601.
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Suah A, Angelos P. How Should Trauma Patients' Informed Consent or Refusal Be Regarded in a Trauma Bay or Other Emergency Settings? AMA J Ethics. 2018 May 01; 20(5):425-430.
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Blum AW, Grant JE. Behavioral Addictions and Criminal Responsibility. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2017 12; 45(4):464-471.
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Radix A, Davis AM. Endocrine Treatment of Gender-Dysphoric/Gender-Incongruent Persons. JAMA. 2017 Oct 17; 318(15):1491-1492.
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DeMartino ES, Dudzinski DM, Doyle CK, Sperry BP, Gregory SE, Siegler M, Sulmasy DP, Mueller PS, Kramer DB. Who Decides When a Patient Can't? Statutes on Alternate Decision Makers. N Engl J Med. 2017 Apr 13; 376(15):1478-1482.
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Ross LF. Theory and Practice of Pediatric Bioethics. Perspect Biol Med. 2016; 58(3):267-80.
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Sulmasy DP, Sulmasy LS. On substituted arguments. J Med Ethics. 2015 Sep; 41(9):732-3.
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Brudney D, Siegler M. A Justifiable Asymmetry. J Clin Ethics. 2015; 26(2):100-3.
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Lazaridis C, Blumenthal-Barby JS. Organ Donation Beyond Brain Death: Donors as Ends and Maximal Utility. Am J Bioeth. 2015; 15(8):17-9.
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