Legalized physician-assisted suicide in Oregon - The second year

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 342, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 598-604

  Sullivan, Amy D ^a   Hedberg, Katrina ^a   Fleming, David W ^a  

^a OREGON PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EUTHANASIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE; TERMINAL CARE;

AUTONOMY; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DEATH WITH DIGNITY ACT (OR); DEATH WITH DIGNITY ACT (OREGON); EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FAMILY MEMBERS; OREGON; SOCIAL IMPACT; SUFFERING; SURVEY; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOTIVATION; OREGON; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE, ASSISTED;

EID: 0033995351     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200002243420822     Document Type: Article

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