Informed, advance refusals of treatment by people with severe mental illness in a randomised controlled trial of joint crisis plans: demand, content and correlates

Abstract Background In the UK, crisis planning for mental health care should acknowledge the right to make an informed advance treatment refusal under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Our aims were to estimate the demand for such treatment refusals within a sample of service users who had had a recent...

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Main Authors: Claire Henderson, Simone Farrelly, Clare Flach, Rohan Borschmann, Max Birchwood, Graham Thornicroft, Waquas Waheed, George Szmukler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-11-01
Series:BMC Psychiatry
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12888-017-1542-5