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7871132

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-3-27
pubmed:abstractText
Forty-one psychiatric consultations on medical-surgical inpatients for competency to refuse medical treatment were studied retrospectively. The competent (n = 16) and incompetent (n = 25) patients were compared in terms of demographic data, diagnoses, clinical variables, details about treatment refusal, and outcome following competency assessment. The incompetent patients tended to be men, the focus of more urgent requests, and to have refused operations. The incompetent patients tended to have organic brain syndromes; the competent patients had personality disorders, adjustment disorders, or no psychiatric diagnosis. Ultimate acceptance of treatment initially refused was common in both groups; differential psychiatric interventions were recommended. The process of psychiatric consultation appeared to facilitate acceptance of treatment initially refused.
pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
E
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0033-3182
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
36
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
33-41
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Psychiatric consultation for competency to refuse medical treatment. A retrospective study of patient characteristics and outcome.
pubmed:affiliation
Toronto Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Ontario, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article