@article{ref1,
title="What constitutes a psychiatric emergency: clinical and legal dimensions",
journal="Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law",
year="1987",
author="Swartz, M. S.",
volume="15",
number="1",
pages="57-68",
abstract="In true medical emergencies, informed consent is presumed or implied without application of the usual standard. In the litigation over the right to refuse treatment in psychiatry, a limited right for involuntarily committed patients to refuse treatment has been upheld, absent a finding of a psychiatric emergency. Increasingly, clinicians may find that their sole extrajudicial option in instituting treatment over the patient's objection is in invoking a psychiatric emergency. The purpose of this communication is to discuss the clinical and legal issues in defining and invoking a psychiatric emergency in treatment refusal. The substantive and procedural issues in the use of the emergency exception in treatment refusal are discussed with recommendations for their use in clinical practice.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-634X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}