Pain and the choice to hasten death in patients with painful metastatic cancer

Journal of Palliative Care

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 18-28

  Sullivan, Mark ^a   Rapp, Suzanne ^b   Fitzgibbon, Dermot ^b   Chapman, C Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DEPRESSION; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; ETHICS; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LIVING WILL; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PAIN; PASSIVE EUTHANASIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RELIGION; RIGHT TO DIE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE EFFECT; ETHICS; EUTHANASIA; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; INTERVIEWS; LIVING WILLS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; RELIGION; RIGHT TO DIE; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TERMINAL CARE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0031228325     PISSN: 08258597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/082585979701300304     Document Type: Article

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