End-of-life decisions in the Netherlands over 25 years
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_To the Editor:_ In the Netherlands, the much debated practice of physician assistance in dying has been legally regulated since 2002. Such assistance may include physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia, in which a physician administers lethal medication at the explicit request of a patient. Both types of assistance are allowed only for patients who are “suffering unbearably” without any prospect of relief. [...]
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Some evidence suggests that reporting requirements and safeguarding criteria are sometimes ignored and transgressed, especially in jurisdictions where transgressions are not always prosecuted.
“Some evidence suggests that reporting requirements and safeguarding criteria are sometimes ignored and transgressed, especially in jurisdictions where transgressions are not always prosecuted (33, 78–80).”
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- Authors
- van der Heide, A., van Delden, J. J. M., & Onwuteaka-Philipsen, B. D.
- Affiliations
- Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 2017-08-03
- Volume
- 377
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 492-494
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- OpenAlex
- W2741628528
- Cited by
- 124
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 51 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 22.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- New England Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Pure Amsterdam UMC (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Amsterdam UMC (VU Amsterdam) - Institutional Repository (publishedVersion)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion)
- Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative and Oncologic Care
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Keywords
- physician-assisted death, physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, end-of-life decisions, Netherlands
- MeSH terms
- Euthanasia, Humans, Netherlands, Terminal Care, Suicide, Assisted, Withholding Treatment
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