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Legal decisions on longstanding severe eating disorders

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The treatment of longstanding severe eating disorders is a public concern amid rising service pressures and legal cases. These cases raise complex issues about the interface between legislative schemes, restrictive practices, best interests, treatment refusal and potential interaction with assisted dying legislation, when patients lack capacity yet clearly express wishes.
Language: English
Field: Psychology
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4416979413
FWCI: 2.291
Cites: 8
Cited by: 2
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