Doctors' and nurses' attitudes towards and experiences of voluntary euthanasia: Survey of members of the Japanese Association of Palliative Medicine

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 324-330

  Asai, A ^a,b   Ohnishi, M ^a,b   Nagata, S K ^a,b   Tanida, N ^a,b   Yamazaki, Y ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Doctors; Euthanasia; Japan; Nurses; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EUTHANASIA; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NURSE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ETHICS, MEDICAL; ETHICS, NURSING; EUTHANASIA; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; HUMANS; JAPAN; NURSES; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 0034785309     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.27.5.324     Document Type: Article

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