Publication: Commonalities and differences in legal euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in three countries: a population-level comparison
Commonalities and differences in legal euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in three countries: a population-level comparison
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Dierickx, S., Onwuteaka-Philipsen, B., Penders, Y., Cohen, J., van der Heide, A., Puhan, M. A., Ziegler, S., Bosshard, G., Deliens, L., & Chambaere, K. (2020). Commonalities and differences in legal euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in three countries: a population-level comparison. International Journal of Public Health, 65(1), 65–73. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-019-01281-6
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OBJECTIVES: To describe and compare euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) practice in Flanders, Belgium (BE), the Netherlands (NL) and Switzerland (CH). METHODS: Mortality follow-back surveys among attending physicians of a random sample of death certificates. RESULTS: We studied 349 EAS deaths in BE (4.6% of all deaths), 851 in NL (4.6% of all deaths) and 65 in CH (1.4% of all deaths). People who died by EAS were mostly aged 65 or older (BE: 81%, NL: 77% and CH: 71%) and were mostly diagnosed with cancer (BE: 57% and NL: 66
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- Dierickx, Sigrid
- Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje
- Penders, Yolanda
- Cohen, Joachim
- van der Heide, Agnes
- Puhan, Milo A
- Ziegler, Sarah
- Bosshard, Georg
- Deliens, Luc
- Chambaere, Kenneth
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Dierickx, S., Onwuteaka-Philipsen, B., Penders, Y., Cohen, J., van der Heide, A., Puhan, M. A., Ziegler, S., Bosshard, G., Deliens, L., & Chambaere, K. (2020). Commonalities and differences in legal euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in three countries: a population-level comparison. International Journal of Public Health, 65(1), 65–73. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-019-01281-6
