Consultants in cases of intended euthanasia or assisted suicide in the Netherlands

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 170, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 360-363

  Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^a   Van Der Wal, Gerrit ^a   Kostense, Piet J ^a   Van Der Maas, Paul J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; EUTHANASIA; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAINING;

EID: 0033583449     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1999.tb139166.x     Document Type: Article

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