Judgement of suffering in the case of a euthanasia request in The Netherlands
Introduction: In The Netherlands, physicians have to be convinced that the patient suffers unbearably and hopelessly before granting a request for euthanasia. The extent to which general practitioners (GPs), consulted physicians and members of the euthanasia review committees judge this criterion similarly was evaluated. Methods: 300 GPs, 150 consultants and 27 members of review committees were sent a questionnaire with patient descriptions. Besides a “standard case” of a patient with physical suffering and limited life expectancy, the descriptions included cases in which the request was mainl... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2009 |
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British Medical Journal Publishing Group
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Schlagwörter: | Papers |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29176398 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://jme.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/35/8/502 |