Consent to Treatment: Loophole in the Ontario Mental Health Act Journal Articles

abstract

• The issue of using substitute consent to obtain treatment for patients who are not competent to consent to treatment is complex. The authors present a case which illustrates that patients may delay treatment for extended periods of time by repeatedly challenging their incompetency status. The authors present proposals to change the present system.

authors

• Jaychuk, G
• Manchanda, R
• Galbraith, David

status

• published 

publication date

• October 1991

has subject area

• 11 Medical and Health Sciences (FoR)
• 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (FoR)
• Adult (MeSH)
• Commitment of Mentally Ill (MeSH)
• Female (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Informed Consent (MeSH)
• Legal Guardians (MeSH)
• Mentally Ill Persons (MeSH)
• Ontario (MeSH)
• Psychiatry (Science Metrix)
• Schizophrenia (MeSH)
• Schizophrenic Psychology (MeSH)

published in

• Canadian Journal of Psychiatry  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• Commitment of Mentally Ill
• Female
• Humans
• Informed Consent
• Legal Approach
• Legal Guardians
• Mental Health Therapies
• Mentally Ill Persons
• Ontario
• Ontario Mental Health Act
• Professional Patient Relationship
• Schizophrenia
• Schizophrenic Psychology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/070674379103600809

PubMed ID

• 1742714

start page

• 594

end page

• 596

volume

• 36

issue

• 8