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| Title |
About the practice of psychiatric euthanasia: a commentary
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, June 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-017-0896-3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jorge Lopez-Castroman |
| Abstract |
Euthanasia motivated by mental disorders is legal in only a few countries and has a short history. In a recent report of all psychiatric euthanasia cases in Belgium between 2002 and 2013, Dierickx and colleagues suggest that the number of these cases is increasing, and provide a profile of the applicants. To date, knowledge of the practice of psychiatric euthanasia is limited, but rising public awareness might increase the number of requests. The authors reveal several shortcomings in cases of psychiatric euthanasia and open avenues for future research.Please see related article: https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-017-1369-0. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 6 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 17% |
| Belgium | 1 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 33% |
| Scientists | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 49 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 49 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 8% |
| Other | 4 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 8% |
| Researcher | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 10 | 20% |
| Unknown | 15 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 27% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 16% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 6% |
| Psychology | 3 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 4 | 8% |
| Unknown | 15 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 August 2018.
All research outputs
#7,551,990
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,672
of 3,613 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#116,180
of 317,607 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#38
of 49 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,881,329 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 68th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,613 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 44.6. This one is in the 25th percentile – i.e., 25% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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