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Physician reports of medication use with explicit intention of hastening the end of life in the absence of explicit patient request in general practice in Belgium

BACKGROUND: Although the incidence of the use of life-ending drugs without explicit patient request has been estimated in several studies, in-depth empirical research on this controversial practice is nonexistent. Based on face-to-face interviews with the clinicians involved in cases where patients...

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Autores principales: Meeussen, Koen, Van den Block, Lieve, Bossuyt, Nathalie, Echteld, Michael, Bilsen, Johan, Deliens, Luc
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2867997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20380710
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-186