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Ethics, law, and medicine
Depression and competence to refuse psychiatric treatment
- Correspondence to: Dr A Rudnick, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Tel Aviv University School of Medicine, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel; harudnick{at}hotmail.com
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Depression and competence to refuse psychiatric treatment
Publication history
- Accepted December 12, 2001
- Revised October 15, 2001
- First published June 1, 2002.
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April 27, 2016
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Copyright 2002 by the Journal of Medical Ethics
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