Euthanasia requests and cancer types in the Netherlands: Is there a relationship?

Health Policy

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 168-173

  Abarshi, Ebun ^a   Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^a   van der Wal, Gerrit ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer type; End of life care; Euthanasia requests

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 58349104780     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2008.05.014     Document Type: Article

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