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Cognitive predictors of understanding treatment decisions in patients with newly diagnosed brain metastasis.
Adam Gerstenecker
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Karen Meneses
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Kevin Duff
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John B Fiveash
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Daniel C Marson
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Kristen L Triebel
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Jun 15 2015
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Abstract
Medical decision-making capacity is a higher-order functional skill that refers to a patient's ability to make informed, sound decisions related to care and treatment. In a medical context, understanding is the most cognitively demanding consent standard and refers to a patient's ability to comprehend information to the extent that informed decisions can be made.