Court-authorized medication for incompetent hospitalized patients.
The authors provide an overview of recent developments affecting court-authorized treatment of incompetent patients, focusing on a state psychiatric system that has historically been in the vanguard in this arena in the United States.
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Ohio Department of Mental Health's Lewis Center, USA.
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