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| Title |
Survey of doctors' opinions of the legalisation of physician assisted suicide
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, March 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6939-10-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
William Lee, Annabel Price, Lauren Rayner, Matthew Hotopf |
| Abstract |
Assisted dying has wide support among the general population but there is evidence that those providing care for the dying may be less supportive. Senior doctors would be involved in implementing the proposed change in the law. We aimed to measure support for legalizing physician assisted dying in a representative sample of senior doctors in England and Wales, and to assess any association between doctors' characteristics and level of support for a change in the law. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 5 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 Kingdom | 3 | 60% |
| Unknown | 2 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 40% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 79 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| South Africa | 1 | 1% |
| Belgium | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 74 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 16% |
| Unknown | 17 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 30 | 38% |
| Psychology | 6 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 19 | 24% |
| Unknown | 15 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 22 October 2021.
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#2,825,236
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#305
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#9,632
of 93,056 outputs
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#2
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