@article{ref1,
title="When patients behave badly: consent, breach of the duty of care and the law",
journal="Emergency medicine Australasia",
year="2020",
author="Kelly, Anne-Maree and Cockburn, Tina and Madden, Bill",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Patients who are abusive or aggressive in ED raise special clinical and legal  challenges. These include what steps clinicians should take to exclude serious  illness/injury as the cause of the behaviour and when investigations or treatments  can be imposed on these patients without their consent. Using a case illustration,  this paper discusses legal issues which arise in this context, including how the  standard of care owed by clinicians is determined and what may constitute a breach  of duty; such patients' right to consent to (or decline) tests and treatment; and  when clinicians may lawfully act without consent and/or control the patient's  behaviour.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1742-6731",
doi="10.1111/1742-6723.13692",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.13692"
}