Unbearable suffering and requests for euthanasia prospectively studied in end-of-life cancer patients in primary care

BACKGROUND: An international discussion about whether or not to legally permit euthanasia and (or) physician assisted suicide (EAS) is ongoing. Unbearable suffering in patients may result in a request for EAS. In the Netherlands EAS is legally permitted, and unbearable suffering is one of the centra...

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Autores principales: Ruijs, Cees DM, van der Wal, Gerrit, Kerkhof, Ad JFM, Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4292985/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25587240
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-684X-13-62

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4292985/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25587240
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-684X-13-62

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