Assessing competence to refuse medical treatment
- 1 May 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 174 (10) , 522-525
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2001.tb143405.x
Abstract
Doctors have a duly to ensure that patients in their care who refuse medical treatment are competent to do so. Doctors who comply with an incompetent patient's refusal of treatment risk harm to the ...Keywords
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