Image of psychiatric patients' competency to give informed consent to treatment in Japan II. A case vignette study of competency judgements

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 133-142

  Kitamura, Toshinori ^a   Kitamura, Fusako ^b   Ito, Atsushi ^c   Okazaki, Yuuko ^d   Okuda, Nana ^e   Mitsuhashi, Takayuki ^c   Katoh, Hisao ^e  

^a Director   (Japan)

^b Dept Sociocultural Environ R   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; JAPAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PATIENT; PSYCHIATRIST; RESPONSIBILITY;

HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; JAPAN; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MENTAL DISORDERS;

EID: 0032901775     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-2527(98)00038-7     Document Type: Article

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