Abstract
Various complexities that arise in the application of legal and/or clinical criteria to the actual assessment of competence/capacity are discussed, and a particular way of understanding the nature of such criteria is recommended.
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Checkland, D., Silberfeld, M. Reflections on segregating and assessing areas of competence. Theor Med Bioeth 16, 375–388 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00995482
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