From: Comparison of ethical judgments exhibited by clients and ethics consultants in Japan
Number of patients | % | |
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Patient’s decisional capacity | (n = 60) | |
With decisional capacity | 18 | 30 |
Without decisional capacity | 25 | 41.7 |
Uncertain | 12 | 20 |
No relationship | 5 | 8.3 |
Agreement of opinion about medical care between the CEC client and CEC team | (n = 60) | |
Agreed | 10 | 16.7 |
Disagreed | 9 | 15 |
Partially agreed | 16 | 26.7 |
Withheld | 23 | 38.7 |
Other | 2 | 3.3 |
Approval of the patient preference from the CEC team | (n = 55) | |
Against patient preference | 4 | 7.3 |
For patient preference | 9 | 16.4 |
Undetermined because of ambiguous patient preference | 19 | 34.5 |
Not applicable because the patient had no decisional capacity | 23 | 41.8 |