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OBJECTIVE: To seek and ascertain indicators that can be used in the civil competence assessment of the mental disorders involved in compensation of personal injury. METHODS: A retrospective study was made on the data related to the interviewee's mental status assessed by forensic experts during the period from 2003 to 2005 in Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, P.R.China. The 6 indicators, including awareness of situation, factual understanding of issues, appreciation of likely consequences, rational manipulation of information, functioning in one's own environment, and communication of choice, were graded and statistically analyzed using SPSS 11.5 software. RESULTS: The 6 indicators correlated well with the assessment of forensic experts ,with the related coefficient between 0.632 and 0.876, and the inter-related coefficient among the 6 indicators between 0.575 and 0.911. CONCLUSION The 6 indicators could be used for the civil competence assessment and may also be taken as the basis for further standardization and quantification of civil competence.
Antisocial Personality Disorder/diagnosis* ; Compensation and Redress/legislation & jurisprudence* ; Expert Testimony/legislation & jurisprudence* ; Forensic Psychiatry ; Humans ; Insanity Defense ; Mental Competency/legislation & jurisprudence* ; Psychotic Disorders/diagnosis* ; Wounds and Injuries/economics*

9.Medical legal identification of post-transfusion HIV/AIDS.

Zhao-yun DAI ; Xiang-yu GU ; Jun WU

Journal of Forensic Medicine 2002;18(3):189-191

10.A debate about mental disability expertise of the disability evaluation criteria of traffic accident injurious.

Wei HAN ; Shan-Zhi GU ; Teng CHEN ; Xiao-Di JIA

Journal of Forensic Medicine 2006;22(2):144-146

In recent years, mental disability estimation are more than ever in the practice of forensic psychiatric expertise. The standards about mental disability estimation in the Disability Evaluation Criteria of Traffic Accident Injury are ambiguous and difficult to operate, it cause to different understanding in one case. This article discuss some common questions through 3 aspects in mental disability expertise according to some typical cases, there are the first, we should compare the IQ score before and after injurious in intelligence estimate. The second, the mental disability estimation should be done at least one year after the end of medicine treatment. The third, mental estimate scale should be used in mental disability estimation.
Accidents, Traffic ; Adolescent ; Craniocerebral Trauma/psychology* ; Disability Evaluation ; Expert Testimony/standards* ; Female ; Forensic Psychiatry/legislation & jurisprudence* ; Humans ; Intelligence ; Male ; Persons with Mental Disabilities ; Wechsler Scales ; Young Adult

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2.Rights maintenance and self-discipline of practicing dentist: part IX. Responsibility for quoting proof in lawsuits for medical care dissent.

3."The severe degree of negligence" and its application in the settle of medical malpractice.

4.Rights maintenance and self-discipline of practicing dentist: part VIII. Responsibility for quoting proof in lawsuits for medical care dissension.

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8.Civil competence assessment of the mental disorders involved in compensation of personal injury.

9.Medical legal identification of post-transfusion HIV/AIDS.

10.A debate about mental disability expertise of the disability evaluation criteria of traffic accident injurious.

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