Evaluation of advance statements in psychiatric care

Background: An advance statement in psychiatric care is a statement of a person's preferences for treatment, should he or she lose capacity to make treatment decisions in the future. The underlying principle for implementing these instruments is the promotion of patients' self-determinatio...

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Main Author: Papageorgiou, Alexia
Published: University College London (University of London) 2006
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439531