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- aggregation date "2010".
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- aggregation subject "Medicine and Health Sciences".
- aggregation title "Physician-assisted deaths under the euthanasia law in Belgium: a population-based survey".
- aggregation abstract "Background: Legalization of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has been heavily debated in many countries To help inform this debate, we describe the practices of euthanasia and assisted suicide, and the use of life-ending drugs without an explicit request from the patient, in Flanders, Belgium, where euthanasia is legal. Methods: We mailed a questionnaire regarding the use of life-ending drugs with or without explicit patient request to physicians who certified a representative sample (n = 6927) of death certificates of patients who died in Flanders between June and November 2007. Results: The response rate was 58.4%. Overall, 208 deaths involving the use of life-ending drugs were reported: 142 (weighted prevalence 2.0%) were with an explicit patient request (euthanasia or assisted suicide) and 66 (weighted prevalence 1.8%) were without an explicit request. Euthanasia and assisted suicide mostly involved patients less than 80 years of age, those with cancer and those dying at home. Use of life-ending drugs without an explicit request mostly involved patients 80 years of older, those with a disease other than cancer and those in hospital. Of the deaths without an explicit request, the decision was not discussed with the patient in 77.9% of cases. Compared with assisted deaths with the patient's explicit request, those without an explicit request were more likely to have a shorter length of treatment of the terminal illness, to have cure as a goal of treatment in the last week, to have a shorter estimated time by which life was shortened and to involve the administration of opioids. Interpretation: Physician-assisted deaths with an explicit patient request (euthanasia and assisted suicide) and with-out an explicit request occurred in different patient groups and under different circumstances Cases without an explicit request often involved patients whose diseases had unpredictable end-off life trajectories. Although opioids were used in most of these cases, misconceptions seem to persist about their actual life-shortening effects.".
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