Advance directives and suicidal behaviour

How do you manage a patient who has self harmed but states she doesn’t want life saving treatment? Anthony David and colleagues draw on the case of Kerrie Wooltorton to discuss the difficulties, and in an accompanying article Navneet Kapur and colleagues consider the validity of advance directives

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Veröffentlicht in:	BMJ 2010-09, Vol.341 (7773), p.590-591
Hauptverfasser:	Kapur, Navneet, Clements, Caroline, Bateman, Nick, Foëx, Bernard, Mackway-Jones, Kevin, Huxtable, Richard, Gunnell, David, Hawton, Keith
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Advance directives Advance Directives - ethics Advance Directives - legislation & jurisprudence Advance Directives - psychology ANALYSIS Arthritis Assisted suicide Attitude of Health Personnel Committees Denial Ethics Ethics committees Families & family life Female Humans Intensive care Lifesaving Living conditions Mental Competency - legislation & jurisprudence Mental health Middle Aged Poisoning Professional Practice Psychiatric hospitals Right to die Suicide Suicide - psychology Suicides & suicide attempts Treatment refusal Ventilation systems Ventilators
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Zusammenfassung:	How do you manage a patient who has self harmed but states she doesn’t want life saving treatment? Anthony David and colleagues draw on the case of Kerrie Wooltorton to discuss the difficulties, and in an accompanying article Navneet Kapur and colleagues consider the validity of advance directives
ISSN:	0959-8138 1468-5833 1756-1833
DOI:	10.1136/bmj.c4557