'Refusing treatment - Please see': An analysis of capacity assessments carried out by a liaison psychiatry service

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 480-482

  Ranjith, Gopinath ^a   Hotopf, Matthew ^b  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; LIAISON PSYCHIATRY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIC PSYCHOSYNDROME; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT REFERRAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY SERVICES, PSYCHIATRIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LONDON; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 6944241841     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.97.10.480     Document Type: Article

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