Beyond Capacity: Identifying Ethical Dilemmas Underlying Capacity Evaluation Requests

Psychosomatics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 103-110

  Kontos, Nicholas ^a,b   Freudenreich, Oliver ^a,b   Querques, John ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENEFICENCE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSULTATION; DETOXIFICATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MORALITY; NURSING HOME; PATERNALISM; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PSYCHIATRIST; ADULT; AGED; BIOETHICS; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FEMALE; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT RIGHT; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOETHICS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; PATERNALISM; PATIENT RIGHTS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PRINCIPLE-BASED ETHICS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 84875810911     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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