Assessment of the capacity to consent to treatment in patients admitted to acute medical wards

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Fassassi, Sylfa ^a   Bianchi, Yanik ^a   Stiefel, Friedrich ^a   Waeber, Gérard ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHIATRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENT; SCORING SYSTEM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WARD; AGE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ETHICS; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 70349433730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-10-15     Document Type: Article

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