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| Title |
Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) to hasten death: may clinicians legally support patients to VSED?
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| Published in |
BMC Medicine, October 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-017-0951-0 |
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| Authors |
Thaddeus Mason Pope |
| Abstract |
Jox and colleagues recently compared and contrasted two leading end-of-life exit options, namely voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) and medical aid in dying (MAID). The authors argue that policymakers and medical societies should consider VSED and MAID in a uniform and consistent manner given that clinician participation in both constitutes assisted suicide. This is a very controversial topic. Herein, it is questioned whether there really is disparate consideration of VSED and MAID and whether it is justified, bearing in mind that VSED is not assisted suicide.Please see related article: http://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-017-0950-1 . |
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 % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 2 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 50% |
| Scientists | 2 | 33% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 19 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 19 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 16% |
| Researcher | 3 | 16% |
| Other | 2 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 3 | 16% |
| Unknown | 5 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 26% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 21% |
| Psychology | 3 | 16% |
| Social Sciences | 1 | 5% |
| Philosophy | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 5 | 26% |
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 27 October 2017.
All research outputs
#7,082,838
of 23,327,904 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,558
of 3,511 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#114,792
of 329,460 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#31
of 42 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,327,904 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 69th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,511 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 43.7. This one is in the 26th percentile – i.e., 26% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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