ライフサイエンスコーパス: assisted suicide

1 pproach to respond to requests for physician-assisted suicide.

2 ds are the result of euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.

3 in order to determine their attitudes toward assisted suicide.

4 rs and patients had the same attitude toward assisted suicide.

5 principles alone does not include physician-assisted suicide.

6 ion in which they would desire euthanasia or assisted suicide.

7 nts have a constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide.

8 udes and practices related to euthanasia and assisted suicide.

9 ists had carried out euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.

10 eceived requests for euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.

11 who express interest in or request physician-assisted suicide.

12 ia, and 13 percent would participate only in assisted suicide.

13 n evaluation of a competent patient desiring assisted suicide.

14 ractices of Oregon physicians in relation to assisted suicide.

15 o evaluate a terminally ill patient desiring assisted suicide.

16 pairing the judgment of a patient requesting assisted suicide.

17 ve faced the prospect of legalized physician-assisted suicide.

18 nces in relation to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

19 7 Death with Dignity Act legalizes physician-assisted suicide.

20 e after learning the physician's position on assisted suicide.

21 y have had conversations with patients about assisted suicide.

22 es not support the legalization of physician-assisted suicide.

23 are and the debate regarding legalization of assisted suicide.

24 7 Supreme Court decisions outlawed physician-assisted suicide.

25 s regarding patient competence to consent to assisted suicide.

26 cians to use when responding to requests for assisted suicide.

27 ss likely to support euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.

28 ent consideration of euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.

29 ot all--patients to change their minds about assisted suicide.

30 In 1997, Oregon legalized physician-assisted suicide.

31 ne between relief of suffering and physician-assisted suicide.

32 P does not support legalization of physician-assisted suicide.

33 e used to determine competence to consent to assisted suicide.

34 ly to have performed euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.

35 euthanasia and 10.8% had performed physician-assisted suicide.

36 nicians who are morally opposed to physician-assisted suicide.

37 he ongoing debates regarding legalization of assisted suicide.

38 October 27, 1997, Oregon legalized physician-assisted suicide.

39 on of referendums and requests for physician-assisted suicide.

40 ons with ALS whom we surveyed would consider assisted suicide.

41 nt, 46% for withdrawal of treatment, 23% for assisted suicide, 32% for active euthanasia, and 41% for

42 Of 156 patients who requested physician-assisted suicide, 38 (24%) received prescriptions, and 2

43 older than 55 patients who died by physician-assisted suicide (74 vs. 64 years of age, P<0.001), less

44 nd the public found euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide acceptable for patients with unremittin

45 or themselves, 85.8% found euthanasia and/or assisted suicide acceptable for their patients.

46 Psychiatrists with ethical objections to assisted suicide advocated a higher threshold for compet

47 to choose between legalization of physician-assisted suicide and an explicit ban, 56 percent of phys

48 tself, 2) the relationship between physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia and withholding or withd

49 Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are complex moral issues

50 Patient request for physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are not rare.

51 Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are topics that engender

52 ore core ethical issues related to physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia from the perspective of

53 creasingly common debate regarding physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia holds implications for t

54 ical tension central to evaluating physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in medical practice: 1)

55 conscientious objection related to physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in the critical care set

56 gh there have been many studies of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in the United States, na

57 ort that they receive requests for physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, and about 7 percent of

58 t of respondents did not distinguish between assisted suicide and euthanasia.

59 onscientious objections related to physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia.

60 nfected patients' attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide and examined the relationship between i

61 would agree to evaluate patients requesting assisted suicide and how they would follow up an evaluat

62 iously thought about euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide and nearly 12 percent had seriously dis

63 e relationship between interest in physician-assisted suicide and physical and psychosocial variables

64 on that there is a valid distinction between assisted suicide and refusal of treatment.

65 resolve a majority of requests for physician-assisted suicide and should be tested further for clinic

66 re has been a continuing public debate about assisted suicide and the proper role, if any, of physici

67 nically more complex and closer to physician-assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia than is

68 roversy about the acceptability of physician-assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia, volunt

69 ther a valid distinction can be made between assisted suicide and withdrawal of treatment.

70 t after learning the physician's position on assisted suicide, and 2% reported that 1 or more patient

71 one or more explicit requests for physician-assisted suicide, and 4% received one or more requests f

72 tients (56 percent) said they would consider assisted suicide, and 44 of the 56 agreed with the state

73 eceived requests for euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide, and 5% or less have complied.

74 tients supported policies favoring physician-assisted suicide, and 55% acknowledged considering physi

75 ndents have previously received requests for assisted suicide, and 7 percent have complied.

76 ility, responding to a request for physician-assisted suicide, and guiding patients and families thro

77 and performance of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, and sociodemographic characteristics.

78 r belief about the ethical permissibility of assisted suicide, and their moral beliefs influence how

79 Patients' interest in physician-assisted suicide appeared to be more a function of psych

80 Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are important issues in the care of ter

81 Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are increasingly being legalized, remai

82 Requests for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are likely to decrease as training in e

83 Requests for physician-assisted suicide are not a new phenomenon, and many phys

84 Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are pressing public issues.

85 avorable attitude toward legalized physician-assisted suicide, are more willing to participate, and a

86 , and 55% acknowledged considering physician-assisted suicide as an option for themselves.

87 ventions were made changed their minds about assisted suicide, as compared with 15 percent of those f

88 tes), or physicians to perform euthanasia or assisted suicide, as well as their own practices.

89 tients' motivations for requesting physician-assisted suicide, assessing mental status, diagnosing an

90 tients supported policies favoring physician-assisted suicide at rates comparable to those in the gen

91 have been receiving euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide at rates higher than those in the gener

92 isted suicide by asking the question: Should assisted suicide be only physician assisted?

93 paper explores these questions as physician-assisted suicide becomes legal.

94 that only competent patients have access to assisted suicide, but the process might burden terminall

95 ty and the limits of the physician's role in assisted suicide by asking the question: Should assisted

96 The first case involves assisted suicide by ingestion of prescribed barbiturates

97 Currently, euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide can be legally practiced in the Netherl

98 t would find state legalization of physician-assisted suicide constitutional, invited the nation to p

99 advance directives and legalizing physician-assisted suicide depends on patients' understanding thei

100 Euthanasia or assisted suicide (EAS) of psychiatric patients is increa

101 of oncologists find euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide ethically acceptable.

102 actable end-of-life suffering than physician-assisted suicide (even if it were legal) and can also pr

103 Physician-assisted suicide, excluding euthanasia, is legal in 5 US

104 on attitudes toward euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for a terminally ill patient with prost

105 rveyed, 22.5% supported the use of physician-assisted suicide for a terminally ill patient with unrem

106 enacted in October 1997, legalized physician-assisted suicide for competent, terminally ill Oregonian

107 been proposed as an alternative to physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients who wish to

108 Oregon's ballot measure legalizing physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill persons, the authors

109 ion in which they might desire euthanasia or assisted suicide for themselves but found these interven

110 ion in which they might desire euthanasia or assisted suicide for themselves, 41.7% still found these

111 ion in which they might desire euthanasia or assisted suicide for themselves, 85.8% found euthanasia

112 When physicians desire euthanasia or assisted suicide for themselves, they are willing to pro

113 ion in which they might desire euthanasia or assisted suicide for themselves.

114 in 1995 said they had granted a request for assisted suicide from a patient with AIDS at least once.

115 the deeply controversial issue of physician-assisted suicide has been complicated by confusion about

116 public support for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has been reported; in Central and Easte

117 Euthanasia and assisted suicide has received considerable attention rec

118 Although physician-assisted suicide has received the most attention as a po

119 Calls to legalize physician-assisted suicide have increased and public interest in t

120 were considered to be willing to contemplate assisted suicide if they agreed with the statement, "Und

121 iative care interventions and from physician-assisted suicide, illustrate them with a real clinical s

122 aths are reported as euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide in jurisdictions where they are legal.

123 arge portion of patients receiving physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and Washington reported being

124 During the first year of legalized physician-assisted suicide in Oregon, the decision to request and

125 d with the first year of legalized physician-assisted suicide in Oregon, the number of patients who d

126 Public support for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States has plateaued sinc

127 ess of the controversy surrounding physician-assisted suicide in the United States, the need for qual

128 patients with HIV disease, the acceptance of assisted suicide increased between 1990 and 1995.

129 Psychiatrists' position on legalization of assisted suicide influenced the likelihood that they wou

130 Over half favored Oregon's assisted suicide initiative becoming law.

131 uthority in this area suggest that physician-assisted suicide is a far too narrow construct of the ta

132 As physician-assisted suicide is debated, a need for standardized mea

133 It is also one of the few countries where assisted suicide is decriminalized in some circumstances

134 If physician-assisted suicide is legalized, physicians will need to g

135 upreme Court unanimously held that physician-assisted suicide is not a fundamental liberty interest p

136 Physician-assisted suicide is prominent among the issues that defi

137 rposes of PRPA are to override the physician-assisted suicide law currently in effect in Oregon and p

138 nd the public found euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide least acceptable in vignettes involving

139 ich the physician's response to requests for assisted suicide may change in an era of legalization, a

140 of a policy change with regard to physician-assisted suicide must be carefully considered.

141 The physician's position on physician-assisted suicide must be open to discussion between prac

142 prefer either the legalization of physician-assisted suicide or no law at all; fewer than one fifth

143 sted--22 percent would participate in either assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia, and 13 percent

144 e likely to consider euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide (P = 0.001).

145 e death penalty (P < 0.001), and approval of assisted suicide (P = 0.015) correlated with increased w

146 Attitudes regarding the ethics of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia have been examined

147 Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia have been increasi

148 Although euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) are controversial issues, the vie

149 Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) are highly controversial issues.

150 ame the first US state to legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS) as an option for end-of-life care

151 e details of actual euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) cases in the United States.

152 bout half would like the option of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) to be available for possible futu

153 physicians write prescriptions for physician-assisted suicide per year.

154 The routine practice of physician-assisted suicide raises serious ethical and other concer

155 ufficient to ensure that patients requesting assisted suicide receive the best care.

156 The practices of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide remain controversial.

157 hical arguments against legalizing physician-assisted suicide remain the most compelling.

158 Assisted suicide requires physician involvement, but phy

159 ly, on the basis of autonomy, that physician-assisted suicide should be a legal option at the end of

160 h included questions about whether physician-assisted suicide should be banned in Michigan or legaliz

161 is critical to meet society's interest that assisted suicide should be humane, effective, and confin

162 percent of the respondents thought physician-assisted suicide should be legal in some cases, and near

163 how they might evaluate a patient requesting assisted suicide, should this practice be legalized.

164 public debate continues about euthanasia and assisted suicide, some critical care nurses in the Unite

165 n Oregon to determine their attitudes toward assisted suicide, the factors influencing these attitude

166 ues it is commonly referred to as "physician-assisted suicide." This paper defines both the necessity

167 mpared with the patients who were opposed to assisted suicide, those who would consider it were more

168 more likely to find euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide unacceptable.

169 experience of efforts to implement physician-assisted suicide using consensus guidelines?

170 Physician-assisted suicide was defined as "a physician providing a

171 Sixty-six percent believed that assisted suicide was ethical in at least some circumstan

172 Physician-assisted suicide was legalized in Oregon in October 1997

173 Since assisted suicide was legalized in Oregon, many hospice n

174 pairing the judgment of a patient requesting assisted suicide was low.

175 Support for physician-assisted suicide was lowest among the strongly religious

176 ition, we found that the choice of physician-assisted suicide was not associated with level of educat

177 Interest in physician-assisted suicide was not related to severity of pain, pa

178 with Dignity Act, which legalized physician-assisted suicide, was approved by Oregon voters in 1994

179 Attitudes toward, and interest in, physician-assisted suicide were assessed through responses to a qu

180 ercent of the 91 Oregonians who have died by assisted suicide were enrolled in hospice programs, ther

181 trongest predictors of interest in physician-assisted suicide were high scores on measures of psychol

182 If physician-assisted suicide were legal, 35 percent of physicians sa

183 56 agreed with the statement, "If physician-assisted suicide were legal, I would request a lethal pr

184 egon has legalized and implemented physician-assisted suicide, while observers argue about the moral

185 ing legalization of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide worldwide makes it important to underst

186 important safeguard for patients requesting assisted suicide, yet mental health professionals have n