Physician-assisted suicide: A survey of attitudes among Swedish physicians

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 720-727

  Lindblad, Anna ^a   Löfmark, Rurik ^a   Lynöe, Niels ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitudes; clinical ethics; patient autonomy; physician assisted suicide; terminal ill patients

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT TRUST; PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGEON; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; SWEDEN;

EID: 51049089753     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1403494808090163     Document Type: Article

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