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Legal physician-assisted dying in Oregon and the Netherlands: evidence concerning the impact on patients in “vulnerable” groups

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Battin, Margaret P, van der Heide, Agnes, Ganzini, Linda, van der Wal, Gerrit, Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje D·2007·Journal of Medical Ethics

DOI 10.1136/jme.2007.022335PMC PMC2652799

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BACKGROUND: Debates over legalisation of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) or euthanasia often warn of a "slippery slope", predicting abuse of people in vulnerable groups. To assess this concern, the authors examined data from Oregon and the Netherlands, the two principal jurisdictions in which physician-assisted dying is legal and data have been collected over a substantial period. METHODS: The data from Oregon (where PAS, now called death under the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, is legal) comprised all annual and cumulative Department of Human Services reports 1998-2006 and three independent studies; the data from the Netherlands (where both PAS and euthanasia are now legal) comprised all four government-commissioned nationwide studies of end-of-life decision making (1990, 1995, 2001 and 2005) and specialised studies. Evidence of any disproportionate impact on 10 groups of potentially vulnerable patients was sought. RESULTS: Rates of assisted dying in Oregon and in the Netherlands showed no evidence of heightened risk for the elderly, women, the uninsured (inapplicable in the Netherlands, where all are insured), people with low educational status, the poor, the physically disabled or chronically ill, minors, people with psychiatric illnesses including depression, or racial or ethnic minorities, compared with background populations. The only group with a heightened risk was people with AIDS. While extralegal cases were not the focus of this study, none have been uncovered in Oregon; among extralegal cases in the Netherlands, there was no evidence of higher rates in vulnerable groups. CONCLUSIONS: Where assisted dying is already legal, there is no current evidence for the claim that legalised PAS or euthanasia will have disproportionate impact on patients in vulnerable groups. Those who received physician-assisted dying in the jurisdictions studied appeared to enjoy comparative social, economic, educational, professional and other privileges.

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Authors: Battin, M. P., van der Heide, A., Ganzini, L., van der Wal, G., & Onwuteaka-Philipsen, B. D.
Affiliations: University of Utah (US)
Oregon Health & Science University (US)
Amsterdam Public Health (NL)
Corresponding author: Battin, Margaret P
ORCID: Battin, Margaret P
Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje D
Venue: Journal of Medical Ethics
Publisher: BMJ
Published: 2007-09-28
Volume: 33
Issue: 10
Pages: 591-597
ISSN: 0306-6800 (ISSN-L)
1473-4257
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2007.022335
PMC: PMC2652799
OpenAlex: W2138074567
Cited by: 283
References: 27
Citations by year: 2026: 7 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 47 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 20 · 2012: 15
FWCI: 14.13
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Locations: Journal of Medical Ethics (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion)
DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) (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, vulnerable populations, vulnerable patients, Oregon Death with Dignity Act, Netherlands, AIDS, end-of-life decisions, slippery slope
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Attitude of Health Personnel, Attitude to Death, Euthanasia, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Netherlands, Oregon, Practice Patterns, Physicians', Physicians, Right to Die, Risk Factors, Socioeconomic Factors, Suicide, Assisted, Terminally Ill, Vulnerable Populations

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