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- Nathan Gold Allen, Jeffrey Steven Khan, Mohammad Shami Alzahri, and Andrea Gail Stolar.
- Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Center for Medical Ethics & Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Suite 310D, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Electronic address: Nathan.Allen@bcm.edu.
- Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. 2015 Nov 1;33(4):863-74.
AbstractThe care of patients with a psychiatric emergency is fraught with ethical challenges. Applying ethical reasoning to clinical challenges may help to improve care. Emergency providers should assess decision-making capacity using 4 criteria: communication, understanding, appreciation, and reasoning. Maintaining patient confidentiality is a strong imperative for emergency physicians and should be protected unless compelling additional concerns take precedence. The goal of involuntary treatment should be to protect patients from harm that they would not be exposed to were they capable of autonomous decision making, not dangerous, or not impaired by their psychiatric illness using the least restrictive means possible.Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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