A comparison of physicians' end-of-life decision making for non-western migrants and Dutch natives in the Netherlands

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 681-687

  Buiting, Hilde M ^a   Rietjens, Judith A C ^a   Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^b   Van Der Maas, Paul J ^a   Van Delden, Johannes J M ^c   Van Der Heide, Agnes ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Culture; Decision making; End of life; Ethnicity; Migrant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIANS; TERMINAL CARE; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56749179486     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckn084     Document Type: Article

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