Mental capacity to consent to treatment
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Kate Maxmin; Claudia Cooper; Laurence Potter; Gill Livingston
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Article
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2009
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## Objectives There is little information about older adult psychiatric inpatients' capacity to consent to clinical decisions. In younger adults, lack of capacity is associated with poor insight and psychosis rather than cognitive impairment. We assessed the prevalence and predictors o