Capacity to consent to treatment in patients with acute mania

Psychiatric Bulletin

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 419-422

  Beckett, Jonathan ^a   Chaplin, Robert ^b,c  

^a Lambeth Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS   (United Kingdom)

^c Littlemore Mental Health Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MANIA; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PATIENT; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PREDICTION;

EID: 33750603696     PISSN: 09556036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/pb.30.11.419     Document Type: Article

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