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“Swiss physicians’ attitudes to assisted suicide”
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2015 PRINCIPLES: In Switzerland, assisted suicide is legal as long as it does not involve self-serving motives. Physician-assisted suicide is regulated by specific guidelines issued by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS).
Susanne Brauer +2 more
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Semi-Supervised Variational Reasoning for Medical Dialogue Generation [PDF]
, 2021 Medical dialogue generation aims to provide automatic and accurate responses to assist physicians to obtain diagnosis and treatment suggestions in an efficient manner. In medical dialogues two key characteristics are relevant for response generation: patient states (such as symptoms, medication) and physician actions (such as diagnosis, treatments). In
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BMC Medicine, 2017 Background A competent patient has the right to refuse foods and fluids even if the patient will die. The exercise of this right, known as voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED), is sometimes proposed as an alternative to physician assisted ...
Andrew McGee, Franklin G. Miller
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Journal of Consumer Psychology, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 143-166, January 2023., 2023 Abstract Individuals seek and value choice freedom, firms provide consumers ever‐increasing opportunities to exercise it, citizens worry about protecting their right to choose freely, and scholars across different disciplines study the topic around the globe.
Simona Botti +2 more
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Voices in Bioethics, 2015 The right-to-die debate was cast into the spotlight on November 1, 2014, when Brittany Maynard, a beautiful young California woman, took her own life by a doctor- prescribed lethal dose.
Mahala Yates Stripling
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Львівський клінічний вісник, 2015 Introduction. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a slowly progressive degenerative polyetiological incurable disease of the central nervous system which causes muscle paralysis and atrophy due to the degeneration of the upper and lower motor neurons.
Nehrych T., Papish M., Shorobura M.
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Gillian Bennett & Physician-Assisted Suicide
Voices in Bioethics, 2014 “I want out before the day when I can no longer assess my situation,” wrote Gillian Bennett, a Vancouver woman, in an open letter to be published after her death. “[I] will be physically alive but there will be no one inside.” Addressing the dementia she
Joshua Preston
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Muscle &Nerve, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 124-129, February 2023., 2023 Abstract Introduction/Aims An intravenous (IV) formulation of edaravone has been shown to slow the rate of physical functional decline in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). An oral suspension formulation of edaravone was recently approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for use in patients with ALS.
Angela Genge +16 more
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Nursing Open, Volume 10, Issue 2, Page 889-900, February 2023., 2023 Abstract Aim Despite the significance of palliative care in treating people with cancer, the provision of this type of care in Iran is vague and unorganized. This research intends to explore the meaning of care in the process of providing palliative care to Iranian people with cancer and to develop a theory that would explain the phenomenon.
Mir Hossein Aghaei +2 more
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Analysis and Evaluation of Explainable Artificial Intelligence on Suicide Risk Assessment [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 This study investigates the effectiveness of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques in predicting suicide risks and identifying the dominant causes for such behaviours. Data augmentation techniques and ML models are utilized to predict the associated risk. Furthermore, SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) and correlation analysis are used
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