Treatment in patients’ best interests

A note on the current state of the law as regards balancing the autonomy, and personal values, of a mentally incapacitated patient against treatment plans with which they do not agree. The author summarises the outcomes of two medical treatment cases heard by the Court of Protection, with similar fa...

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Autor principal: Gee, Lindsay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2016
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Case Study (individual)
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5330350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28250841
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17571472.2016.1225627
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spelling pubmed-53303502017-03-01 Treatment in patients’ best interests Gee, Lindsay London J Prim Care (Abingdon) Case Study (individual) A note on the current state of the law as regards balancing the autonomy, and personal values, of a mentally incapacitated patient against treatment plans with which they do not agree. The author summarises the outcomes of two medical treatment cases heard by the Court of Protection, with similar facts and different results, by way of adding to the advice to practitioners for their communications with patients and families in such situations. Taylor & Francis 2016-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5330350/ /pubmed/28250841 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17571472.2016.1225627 Text en © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5330350/
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