Oregon emergency medical technicians' attitudes toward physician- assisted suicide

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 912-918

  Schmidt, Terri A ^a   Zechnich, Andrew D ^a   Doherty, Melissa ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Emergency medical systems; Emergency medical technicians; EMS; Medical ethics; Oregon; Physician assisted suicide

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; EUTHANASIA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SUICIDE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 0031705775     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1998.tb02821.x     Document Type: Article

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