Seven deaths in Darwin: Case studies under the rights of the Terminally Ill Act, Northern Territory, Australia

Lancet

Volumn 352, Issue 9134, 1998, Pages 1097-1102

  Kissane, David W ^a   Street, Annette ^c   Nitschke, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Darwin General Practice   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER PATIENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONER; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LAW; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SEDATION; SUICIDE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 0032480545     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)05406-3     Document Type: Article

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