Legalized physician-assisted suicide in Oregon - The first year's experience

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 340, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 577-583

  Chin, Arthur E ^b   Hedberg, Katrina ^a   Higginson, Grant K ^b   Fleming, David W ^b  

^a OREGON PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISION   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

AUTONOMY; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; CONTROL GROUPS; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DEATH WITH DIGNITY ACT (OR); DEATH WITH DIGNITY ACT (OREGON); EMPIRICAL APPROACH; OREGON; SOCIAL IMPACT; SURVEY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONTROL GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OREGON; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIANS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; REFUSAL TO TREAT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 0033580228     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199902183400724     Document Type: Article

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