Staff reviewed
RESPECTING THE RIGHT TO REFUSE: IS DECISION-MAKING CAPACITY DISPROPORTIONATELY CHALLENGED IN PATIENTS DECLINING MEDICAL CARE IN ORDER TO TREAT?
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Empirical data now attach numbers to a long-standing critique of hospital capacity consultation: in this two-year single-centre cohort more than nine in ten capacity assessments followed a patient's refusal rather than an agreement to treat, men were questioned disproportionately often, and a finding of incapacity carried more than four-fold higher odds that treatment went ahead.