Involuntary hospitalization of medical patients who lack decisional capacity: An unresolved issue

Psychosomatics

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 443-448

  Byatt, Nancy ^a   Pinals, Debra ^a   Arikan, Rasim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGITATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; DEMENTIA; DISORIENTATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROSURGERY; PARANOIA; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; SOMNOLENCE; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 53549118327     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.47.5.443     Document Type: Letter

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