Ethics Considerations in Laws Restricting Incapacitated Patients ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a safe and effective treatment used for numerous psychiatric conditions. While many patients for whom ECT ...

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Ethics Considerations in Laws Restricting Incapacitated Patients ...

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The Ethics of Treating Incapacitated Patients Against Their Will

Professor Dresser is an expert in biomedical ethics and the law. Since 1983, she has taught medical and law students about legal and ethical issues in end of ...

Five Things Clinicians Should Know When Caring for ...

Increasingly, clinicians confront patients who are incapacitated and have no available surrogate. Such unrepresented patients cannot consent to proposed ...

Ethical Considerations in Clinical Trials for Disorders of ...

Instead, they argue that there is a “need for inclusion of decisionally incapacitated subjects in research as long as it is ethically ...

Medical Detention of Incapacitated Patients

Clinicians need explicit legal authority to temporarily detain and treat incapacitated and unrepresented patients. Physician and hospital ...

Legal restrictions on the use of ECT in California: clinical impact on ...

It is suggested that the decision regarding use of ECT for incompetent patients ... Ethics Considerations in Laws Restricting Incapacitated Patients' Access to ...

Should An Unrepresented, Incapacitated Patient Be Treated Over ...

The ethical presumption is to respect the patient's bodily sovereignty and stated values and to build the therapeutic relationship with health ...

Ethical reflections on AI taking decisions for incapacitated patients

Two aspects are relevant from a human ethical perspective, in decision-making for incapacitated patients, the role of AI, and the opportunity for the ruling by ...

Ethical and Legal Considerations

Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) were introduced in the 1980s as legal instruments for psychiatric patients to retain some choice over their own mental ...

Ethics of Representing Unrepresented Patients

HEALTH LAW. Who Makes Decisions for Incapacitated Patients Who Have No Surrogate or. Advance Directive? ... Ethical and legal considerations in the management of ...

Medical Ethics and Law: Overlapping Concepts and Distinct ...

In an emergency situation when the patient is not legally competent to give informed consent and no surrogate decision-maker is readily available, the law ...

Ethical Framework to Guide Decisions of Treatment Over Objection

rithm about whether or not to treat incapacitated patients over their ... has important legal, social, and ethical implications. The key ethical issue ...

MAKING DECISIONS FOR INCAPACITATED PATIENTS:

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Right to Refuse Medical Treatment - Vermont Ethics Network

Having the right to refuse medical treatment does not mean that when a decisional patient says no, that their refusal will be accepted without question. Any ...

Medical Incapacity Without Mental Illness: A Legal and Ethical ...

The bar for an involuntary hold of this nature is appro- priately stringent—health care providers cannot restrict patient freedom in the U.S. without a.

Illusory Consent: When an Incapacitated Patient Agrees to Treatment

the patient can be held against his will for up to five days before the ... CARE DECISIONS: THE ETHICAL AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF INFORMED. CONSENT IN ...

Principles for the protection of persons with mental illness ... - ohchr

Medication shall meet the best health needs of the patient, shall be given to a patient only for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes and shall never be ...