The Criteria for Judging a Patient's Competence to Decide Is

question 46

Multiple Choice

The criteria for judging a patient's competence to decide is relative to:

• A) The presence or absence of an adequate surrogate decision maker
• B) The particular decision to be made
• C) Nothing-the patient is either competent or not competent
• D) The patient's desire to make decisions about his or her care

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