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| Title |
Physician reports of medication use with explicit intention of hastening the end of life in the absence of explicit patient request in general practice in Belgium
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, April 2010
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-10-186 |
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| Authors |
Koen Meeussen, Lieve Van den Block, Nathalie Bossuyt, Michael Echteld, Johan Bilsen, Luc Deliens |
| Abstract |
Although the incidence of the use of life-ending drugs without explicit patient request has been estimated in several studies, in-depth empirical research on this controversial practice is nonexistent. Based on face-to-face interviews with the clinicians involved in cases where patients died following such a decision in general practice in Belgium, we investigated the clinical characteristics of the patients, the decision-making process, and the way the practice was conducted. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 73 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 72 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 16% |
| Researcher | 11 | 15% |
| Other | 7 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 10 | 14% |
| Unknown | 15 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 26 | 36% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 13 | 18% |
| Psychology | 5 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 7% |
| Engineering | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 6 | 8% |
| Unknown | 16 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. 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 16 September 2011.
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#18,295,723
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#12,745
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#60
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