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  • Title: Right to refuse treatment: impact of Rivers v. Katz.
    Author: Ciccone JR, Tokoli JF, Clements CD, Gift TE.
    Journal: Bull Am Acad Psychiatry Law; 1990; 18(2):203-15. PubMed ID: 2372578.
    Abstract:
    This article examines the impact of the New York court decision, Rivers v. Katz, which in June 1986 dramatically changed the state procedure for responding to involuntarily committed psychiatric patients who formally refused psychopharmacologic treatment. The court rejected the medically administered review process that had been used to respond to involuntarily committed psychiatric patients who formally refused medication, and replaced it with a judicial determination of competent and "substituted judgment" provided by the court. Post-Rivers, the rate of patients consistently refusing treatment decreased, and the time from refusal to resolution increased. The clinical, legal, and economic implications of the Rivers procedure are discussed.
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