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Protocol for a scoping review to understand what is known about how GPs make decisions with, for and on behalf of patients who lack capacity.

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INTRODUCTION:General Practitioners (GPs) and allied healthcare professionals working in primary care are regularly required to make decisions with, for and on behalf of patients who lack capacity. In England and Wales, these decisions are made for incapacitated adult patients under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, which primarily requires that decisions are made in the patient's 'best interests'. Regarding children, decisions are also made in their best interests but are done so under the Children Act 1989, which places paramount importance on the welfare of the child. Decisions for children are usually made by parents, but a GP may become involved if he or she feels a parent is not acting in the best interests of the child. Internationally, including elsewhere in the UK, different approaches are taken. We hypothesise that, despite the legislation and professional guidelines, there are many different approaches taken by GPs and allied healthcare professionals in England and Wales when making these complex decisions with, for and on behalf of patients who lack capacity. To better understand what is known about how these decisions are made, we plan to undertake a scoping review and directed content analysis of the literature. While the majority of decisions made in primary care are made by GPs, for completeness, this review will include all allied healthcare professionals working in primary care. METHODS AND ANALYSIS:To ensure a wide breadth of literature is captured, a scoping review will be undertaken as described by Arksey and O'Malley (2005). A five-stage approach will be taken when conducting this review: (1) identifying the research question; (2) identifying relevant papers; (3) study selection; (4) data extraction and (5) summarising and synthesis. The final stage will include a directed content analysis of the data to help establish the cross-cutting themes. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION:The scoping review will be disseminated through conferences and peer-reviewed publications. This scoping review is the first (mapping) phase in a proposed larger study to explore how GPs make decisions with, for and on behalf of those who lack capacity. Qualitative research with GPs, patients and their families will follow, before all the results are synthesised using an 'empirical bioethics' methodology.

journal_name

BMJ Open

journal_title

BMJ open

authors

Ogden SJ,Huxtable R,Ives J

doi

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038032

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-10-20 00:00:00

pages

e038032

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issn

2044-6055

pii

bmjopen-2020-038032

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Protocol for a scoping review to understand what is known about how GPs make decisions with, for and on behalf of patients who lack capacity.