Issues in psychiatric prevention and enforcement of treatment.
In this article the following issues relating to psychiatric prevention, and enforcement of treatment are discussed: Patient's rights, state interests, informed consent, transient and irreversible incompetency, prediction of the evolution of the patient's clinical state, psychiatric emergency, mode of appropriate treatment chosen, ethics, adequate treatment, malpractice, and the psychiatrist's responsibility and role.
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Mental Health Center Beer Ya'acov, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010819:Physician's Role; D016312:Treatment Refusal