Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

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PALLIATIVE CARE AFTER SUICIDE ATTEMPTS: NOW WHAT?

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Decisions about life-sustaining treatment after a survived suicide attempt sit on the contested ground between decisional capacity, surrogate inference of a patient's values, and psychiatric prognosis, and this piece sets out how a consulting team might reason through that combination — a framework proposal rather than a change in what capacity or substituted judgement require.

J Pain Symptom Manage. 2026.