Requests to forgo potentially life-prolonging treatment and to hasten death in terminally ill cancer patients: A prospective study

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 100-110

  Georges, Jean Jacques ^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

End of life decisions; Forgoing treatment; Hastening death; Patients' requests; Prospective; Suffering; Terminal illness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; INTERVIEW; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; SYMPTOM; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TREATMENT REFUSAL; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIGHT TO DIE; TERMINAL CARE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 32644446970     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2005.06.013     Document Type: Article

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