Physician-assisted death: From euthanasia to the withholding of life-sustaining treatment;Medisch begeleid sterven: Van euthanasie tot het stopzetten van een levensverlengende behandeling

Acta Hospitalia

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Broeckaert, Bert ^a,b   Claessens, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Federatie Palliat Zorg Vlaanderen ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

End of life; Ethics; Euthanasia; Palliative sedation

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED SUICIDE; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MICROCLIMATE; PAIN; REVIEW; SEDATION; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA;

EID: 1942439918     PISSN: 00446009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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