Overriding psychiatric advance directives: Factors associated with psychiatrists' decisions to preempt patients' advance refusal of hospitalization and medication

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-90

  Swanson, Jeffrey W ^a   Van McCrary, S ^b   Swartz, Marvin S ^a   Van Dorn, Richard A ^a   Elbogen, Eric B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental health law; Psychiatric advance directives; Psychiatric disorders; Severe mental illness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTROSPECTION; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHIATRIST; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DECISION MAKING; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; PSYCHIATRY; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847299128     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-006-9032-1     Document Type: Article

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