Euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and other medical practices involving the end of life in the Netherlands, 1990-1995

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 335, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 1699-1705

  Van Der Maas, Paul J ^a   Van Der Wal, Gerrit ^b   Haverkate, Ilinka ^b   De Graaff, Carmen L M ^c   Kester, John G C ^c   Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^b   Van Der Heide, Agnes ^a   Bosma, Jacqueline M ^b   Willems, Dick L ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CANCER; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; COMPETENCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALES; INTENTION; INVOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA; MALES; NETHERLANDS; SURVEY; TRENDS; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA; WEDGE ARGUMENT;

DATA COLLECTION; DEATH CERTIFICATES; DECISION MAKING; EUTHANASIA; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENTION; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIAL CHANGE; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; WEDGE ARGUMENT; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0029833601     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199611283352227     Document Type: Article

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