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Mental capacity assessment: a descriptive, cross-sectional study of what doctors think, know and do
- Correspondence to Dr Jacqueline Nicholls, Department of Reproductive Health, UCL Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women’s Health, UCL, London, UK; j.nicholls{at}ucl.ac.uk
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Mental capacity assessment: a descriptive, cross-sectional study of what doctors think, know and do
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- Received September 3, 2019
- Revised March 12, 2020
- Accepted June 4, 2020
- First published July 9, 2020.
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January 07, 2022
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