Five years of legal physician-assisted suicide in oregon [7]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 961-964

  Hedberg, Katrina ^a   Hopkins, David ^a   Kohn, Melvin ^a  

^a Oregon Health Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CANCER; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; DATA COLLECTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OREGON; SUICIDE, ASSISTED;

EID: 0037421982     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200303063481022     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

1. Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. Oregon revised statute 127.800-127.995. Portland: Oregon Public Health Services, 2003. (Accessed February 14, 2003, at http://www.healthoregon.org/chs/ pas/pas.cfm.)
2. Chin AE, Hedberg K, Higginson GK, Fleming DW. Legalized physician-assisted suicide in Oregon - the first year's experience. N Engl J Med 1999;340:577-83.
3. Sullivan AD, Hedberg K, Fleming DW. Legalized physician-assisted suicide in Oregon - the second year. N Engl J Med 2000; 342:598-604.
4. Sullivan AD, Hedberg K, Hopkins D. Legalized physician-assisted suicide in Oregon, 1998-2000. N Engl J Med 2001;344:605-7.
5. Hedberg K, Hopkins D, Southwick K. Legalized physician-assisted suicide in Oregon, 2001. N Engl J Med 2002;346:450-2.