Differences between terminally ill cancer patients who died after euthanasia had been performed and terminally ill cancer patients who did not request euthanasia

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 578-586

  Georges, Jean Jacques ^a   Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^a   van der Wal, Gerrit ^a   van der Heide, Agnes ^b   van der Maas, Paul J ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer; Empirical evidence; Euthanasia; Palliative care; Suffering; Terminal illness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RIGHT TO DIE; RIGHT TO LIFE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 31144469197     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216305pm1069oa     Document Type: Article

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