Clinical assessment of competency to consent to psychiatric hospitalization

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-64

  Melamed, Yuval ^a   Kimchi, Robert ^b   Shnit, Dan ^c   Moldavski, Daniel ^a   Elizur, Avner ^a  

^a ABARBANEL MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b Psychiat Forensic U Yehuda A   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; PATIENT ATTITUDE;

ALIENS; COMPETENCE; COMPREHENSION; EMERGENCY CARE; EVALUATION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS; ISRAEL; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; MENTALLY ILL; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; VOLUNTARY ADMISSION;

ADULT; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNATIONALITY; ISRAEL; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0032976087     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-2527(98)00018-1     Document Type: Article

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