Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2018 Background: Physician-assisted suicide is one of the features with very different legal solutions in the world. In Serbia, physician-assisted suicide is a crime, within a crime of the assisted suicide.
Božidar BANOVIĆ +2 more
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ICU health care workers opinion on physician-assisted-suicide and euthanasia: a French survey [PDF]
Annals of Intensive Care, 2023 Background In France, physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia are not legal but are still debated. French intensive care unit (ICU) health care workers (HCWs) have an insider’s perspective on the global quality of the patient’s end-of-life, whether it ...
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Ambivalence toward euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has decreased among physicians in Finland [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2022 Background Debates around euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) are ongoing around the globe. Public support has been mounting in Western countries, while some decline has been observed in the USA and Eastern Europe.
Reetta P. Piili +3 more
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Do mental or somatic diagnoses influence emotional response and perception of physician-assisted suicide in Germany? A vignette-based experiment [PDF]
BMC Medical EthicsBackground Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is increasingly being legalized in a growing number of countries and is the focus of societal and ethical debates.
Laura Hofmann, Birgit Wagner
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Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a systematic review of medical students’ attitudes in the last 10 years [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2020 This study aimed at examining the approval rate of the medical students’ regarding active euthanasia, passive euthanasia, and physician-assisted-suicide over the last ten years.
Alejandro Gutierrez-Castillo +4 more
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Attitudes about withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and physician assisted suicide: a cross-sectional survey among the general public in Croatia [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2022 Background There has been no in-depth research of public attitudes on withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide and physician assisted suicide in Croatia.
Ana Borovecki +9 more
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“It is difficult to be absolutely sure one way or the other.” – a mixed method study on Finnish physicians’ views on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide [PDF]
BMC Medical EthicsBackground Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) are complex and ethically challenging topics. Physicians’ attitudes toward euthanasia and PAS have been studied, but little is known about their ethical considerations regarding these topics ...
Reetta P. Piili +5 more
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Evaluating requests for physician‐assisted suicide. A survey among German oncologists [PDF]
Cancer Medicine, 2023 Background Cancer patients form a notable proportion of requestors for physician‐assisted suicide (PAS). This manuscript provides data on German oncologists' views concerning due criteria for the assessment of requests for PAS and quality assurance ...
Jan Schildmann +6 more
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US medical and surgical society position statements on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia: a review [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2020 Background An analysis of the position statements of secular US medical and surgical professional societies on physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia have not been published recently.
Joseph G. Barsness +3 more
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Physician‐Assisted Suicide [PDF]
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1993 David T. Watts, Timothy Howell
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