Prevalence of depression and anxiety in patients requesting physicians' aid in dying: Cross sectional survey

BMJ

Volumn 337, Issue 7676, 2008, Pages 973-975

  Ganzini, Linda ^a,b   Gov, Elizabeth R ^a,b   Dobscha, Steven K ^a,b  

^a PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DYING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LETHALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ASSISTED SUICIDE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RIGHT TO DIE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OREGON; PREVALENCE; RIGHT TO DIE; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 55549093756     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a1682     Document Type: Article

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