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An Audit of Geriatric Capacity Assessments Performed in a General Psychiatry Unit over a Decade

2023-03-13

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Geriatric decisional capacity assessment is a complex medico-legal activity that evaluates normal subjects involved in specific civil matter like wealth transfer, access to treatment or voluntary hospitalization. Our objective was to evaluate how geriatric extrajudicial capacity exams impacted a general psychiatric unit over a decade. We also assessed the value of a surrogate biomarker (neutrophils to lymphocyte r...

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Literature Corpus work: 76af3519-1c57-54d2-ae47-319286aa7dbf
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202303.0212.v1

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