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IS CAPACITY TO CONSENT TO HEALTHCARE A UNIFORMLY DEFINED CONCEPT? INSIGHTS FROM A DOCUMENT ANALYSIS OF LAWS AND NATIONAL GUIDELINES ACROSS SIX EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
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It is a comparative reference map of what six European jurisdictions do and do not tell clinicians about capacity assessment, useful for anyone working across borders or arguing that a national guidance gap exists. It documents variation rather than resolving it: no clinician's obligations change, and it does not alter the defensibility of any capacity opinion an evaluator currently gives, since it offers no assessment standard, instrument data or normative test.