A comparison of physicians' end-of-life decision making for non-western migrants and Dutch natives in the Netherlands

Background: Non-western migrants have a different cultural background that influences their attitudes towards healthcare. As the first wave of this relatively young group is growing older, we investigated, for the first time, whether end-of-life decision-making practices for non-western migrants differ from Dutch natives. Methods: In 2005, we sent questionnaires to physicians who attended deaths identified from the central death registry of Statistics Netherlands ( n = 9651; non-western migrants: n = 627, total response: 78%). We performed multivariate logistic regression analyses adjusted for... Mehr ...