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What passive euthanasia is [PDF]

open access: goldBMC Medical Ethics, 2020
Background Euthanasia can be thought of as being either active or passive; but the precise definition of “passive euthanasia” is not always clear. Though all passive euthanasia involves the withholding of life-sustaining treatment, there would appear to ...
Iain Brassington
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Comparison of attitudes towards five end-of-life care interventions (active pain control, withdrawal of futile life-sustaining treatment, passive euthanasia, active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide): a multicentred cross-sectional survey of Korean patients with cancer, their family caregivers, physicians and the general Korean population [PDF]

open access: goldBMJ Open, 2018
Objectives This study determined attitudes of four groups—Korean patients with cancer, their family caregivers, physicians and the general Korean population—towards five critical end-of-life (EOL) interventions—active pain control, withdrawal of futile ...
Kyoung-Nam Kim   +17 more
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Perception and Attitude towards Passive Euthanasia among Doctors in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Northeast India: A Cross-sectional Study [PDF]

open access: goldJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2023
Introduction: The medical fraternity now has more control over the processes of life and death due to advances in medical technology and equipment.
RS Devandiran   +3 more
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Medical students’ and residents’ views on euthanasia [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2023
Background Doctors are increasingly faced with end-of-life decisions. Little is known about how medical students approach euthanasia. The objective of this study was to evaluate, among medical students and residents, the view on euthanasia and its ...
Rogério Aparecido Dedivitis   +5 more
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The right to refuse medical treatment and passive euthanasia [PDF]

open access: diamondGlasnik Advokatske komore Vojvodine, 2020
Having in mind the obligation of a physician, as stipulated in the Law on Patients' Rights, to respect the will of the patient even when the will is directed toward the refusal of life-sustaining medical treatment, as well as the misdemeanor liability of
Đurđević Tijana
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Passive euthanasia. [PDF]

open access: bronzeJ Med Ethics, 2005
Garrard E, Wilkinson S.
europepmc   +3 more sources

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