Evaluation of competence to consent to assisted suicide: Views of forensic psychiatrists

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 595-600

  Ganzini, Linda ^a   Leong, Gregory B ^b   Fenn, Darien S ^b   Arturo Silva, J ^b   Weinstock, Robert ^b  

^a PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DYING; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TERMINAL DISEASE;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; PSYCHIATRY; RIGHT TO DIE; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 0034080812     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.157.4.595     Document Type: Article

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