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Hopkins Competency Assessment Test  

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  • The Hopkins Competency Assessment Test (HCAT) was developed as a brief screening measure for assessing a patient's capacity to provide informed consent and prepare advance directives regarding medical treatments. As mental health clinicians have increasingly recognized the importance of accurately assessing a patient's ability to provide informed consent, the need for measures to quantify this ability has grown. [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law; Hopkins Competency Assessment Test]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-BC1K809K-D

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