A national survey of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in the United States

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 338, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 1193-1201

  Meier, Diane E ^a   Emmons, Carol Ann ^b   Wallenstein, Sylvan ^a   Quill, Timothy ^c   Morrison, R Sean ^a   Cassel, Christine K ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUTHANASIA; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FAMILY MEMBERS; SURVEY; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA COLLECTION; EUTHANASIA; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TERMINALLY ILL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032560037     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199804233381706     Document Type: Article

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