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End-of-life medical decisions in France: a death certificate follow-up survey 5 years after the 2005 act of parliament on patients’ rights and end of life

BACKGROUND: The “Patients’ Rights and End of Life Care” Act came into force in France in 2005. It allows withholding/withdrawal of life-support treatment, and intensified use of medications that may hasten death through a double effect, as long as hastening death is not the purpose of the decision....

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Autores principales: Pennec, Sophie, Monnier, Alain, Pontone, Silvia, Aubry, Régis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3543844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23206428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-684X-11-25