Zicht op medische beslissingen rond het levenseinde bij pasgeborenen in Vlaanderen ; Insight into end-of-life decisions in newborns in Flanders, Belgium
In the Netherlands, as in many other European countries, the majority of deaths in newborns are preceded by end-of-life decisions. In most cases, these decisions concern the withholding or withdrawing of treatment. Drugs with a potential life-shortening effect are often prescribed in the terminal phase of treatment of newborns to alleviate their suffering. The use of lethal drugs in order to deliberately end the life of newborns with a very poor prognosis and intractable severe suffering has been reported by Dutch paediatricians. Recently published data about end-of-life decisions in newborns... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2006 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Verhagen , E 2006 , ' Zicht op medische beslissingen rond het levenseinde bij pasgeborenen in Vlaanderen ' , Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde , vol. 150 , no. 7 , pp. 355-7 . < https://www.ntvg.nl/artikelen/zicht-op-medische-beslissingen-rond-het-levenseinde-bij-pasgeborenen-vlaanderen > |
Schlagwörter: | Belgium / Decision Making / Euthanasia / Active / Passive / Humans / Infant Mortality / Infant / Newborn / Physician's Practice Patterns / Suicide / Assisted / Terminal Care / Withholding Treatment |
Sprache: | Niederländisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26979681 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/6ecc3abe-5f3c-4e11-817a-c84804d547db |