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

BACKGROUND: Assessment of capacity to consent to treatment is an important legal and ethical issue in daily medical practice. In this study we carefully evaluated the capacity to consent to treatment in patients admitted to an acute medical ward using an assessment by members of the medical team, th...

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Autores principales: Fassassi, Sylfa, Bianchi, Yanik, Stiefel, Friedrich, Waeber, Gérard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2745421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19725954
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6939-10-15