Physicians' experiences with demented patients with advance euthanasia directives in the Netherlands

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1138-1144

  Rurup, Mette L ^a   Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^a   Van Der Heide, Agnes ^b   Van Der Wal, Gerrit ^a   Van Der Maas, Paul J ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Advance directives; Dementia; Euthanasia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOME; PHYSICIAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; AGED; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERVIEW; LIVING WILL; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DEMENTIA; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 24344470644     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53354.x     Document Type: Article

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