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Table 1 Personal and clinical characteristics of patients (n = 157) admitted to the general internal medicine wards who were assessed for mental capacity to consent to treatment.

From: Assessment of the capacity to consent to treatment in patients admitted to acute medical wards

Age in years +/- Standard deviation

68.6

+/- 18.2

 

%

N

Male gender

40.8

64

Highest level of education

  

Primary School

80.9

127

High school

10.2

16

College/University

8.9

14

Place of residence before admission

  

Independent home or flat

73.9

116

Health care at home

24.2

38

Nursing home

1.9

3

Marital Status

  

Married/in couple

42.7

67

single

14.0

22

Divorced

15.3

24

Widowed

28.0

44

Reason for hospitalization

  

cardiovascular disorder

24.8

39

pulmonary disorder

29.3

46

digestive disorder

21.0

33

Others disorders (renal, urogenital, metabolic, osteoarticular, neurologic, etc.)

24.9

39

Co-morbidities

  

cardiovascular

70.0

110

pulmonary

38.9

61

digestive

39.5

62

renal

38.2

60

metabolic

38.9

61

osteoarticular

30.6

48

urogenital

23.6

37

neurologic

19.1

30

psychiatric

15.9

25