General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 25, Issue 2 , Pages 130-135 , March 2003

Decision-making capacity and alcohol abuse: clinical and ethical considerations in personal care choices

  • Lara D. Hazelton, MD, FRCP(C)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +902-473-2492; fax: +902-473-1422.
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  • Gwenyth L. Sterns, MSc, R.Psych

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    • ,
  • Terry Chisholm, MD, FRCP(C)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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☆ The growing complexity of medical care and practice has increasingly brought a number of otherwise independent disciplines into closer working relationships for purposes of mutal education and problem solving. This process is prominently visible in the ways law, ethics, and psychiatry intersect around patient care in the general medical and hospital setting. This special section will publish informative and provocative articles which address these vital matters.

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doi: 10.1016/S0163-8343(03)00005-7

General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 25, Issue 2 , Pages 130-135 , March 2003

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