Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

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THE DECISION STUDY: PROTOCOL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNAL VALIDATION OF A MULTIMODAL DECISION-MAKING CAPACITY FRAMEWORK.

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Capacity assessment in neurocognitive disorder still rests heavily on unstandardised clinical judgment, and this German protocol proposes a structured multimodal alternative benchmarked against the MacCAT-T — but it reports no data, so nothing in it yet supports a different approach to a contested consent or guardianship evaluation.

J Clin Epidemiol. 2026;198:112417.