TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - When patients behave badly: consent, breach of the duty of care and the law
JO  - Emergency medicine Australasia
A1  - Kelly, Anne-Maree
A1  - Cockburn, Tina
A1  - Madden, Bill
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1742-6731
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.13692
ID  - ref1
ER  -