ICU health care workers opinion on physician-assisted-suicide and euthanasia: a French survey. [PDF]
Ann 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 ...
Acquier M +6 more
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Ambivalence toward euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has decreased among physicians in Finland. [PDF]
BMC Med 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.
Piili RP +3 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 Med 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.
Borovecki A +9 more
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Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a systematic review of medical students' attitudes in the last 10 years. [PDF]
J Med Ethics Hist Med, 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.
Gutierrez-Castillo A +4 more
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"We need to talk!" Barriers to GPs' communication about the option of physician-assisted suicide and their ethical implications: results from a qualitative study. [PDF]
Med Health Care Philos, 2017 GPs usually care for their patients for an extended period of time, therefore, requests to not only discontinue a patient’s treatment but to assist a patient in a suicide are likely to create intensely stressful situations for physicians.
Otte IC, Jung C, Elger B, Bally K.
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Trends in Swedish physicians' attitudes towards physician-assisted suicide: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]
BMC Med Ethics, 2021 Aims To examine attitudes towards physician-assisted suicide (PAS) among physicians in Sweden and compare these with the results from a similar cross-sectional study performed in 2007.
Lynøe N +4 more
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Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide in Patients With Multiple Geriatric Syndromes.
JAMA Intern Med, 2021 Key Points Question What are the patient characteristics and circumstances associated with the request for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) in cases of multiple geriatric syndromes as reported in the case summaries of the Dutch Regional ...
van den Berg V +7 more
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Suffering, authenticity, and physician assisted suicide. [PDF]
Med Health Care Philos, 2020 a course The ...
Ahlzen R.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: Why Neutrality by Organized Medicine Is Neither Neutral Nor Appropriate. [PDF]
J Gen Intern Med, 2018 Sulmasy DP +5 more
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Attitudes towards physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in Spanish university students
Revista Bioética, 2019 Attitudes toward physician-assisted death among medical students differ between populations. The aim of this study was to explore attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide among Spanish university students.
María Sol Rodríguez-Calvo +4 more
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