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[Medical end-of-life decisions and assisted suicide]Georg Bosshard
Institut für Rechtsmedizin der Universität Zürich
Ther Umsch 65:413-6. 2008..However, for doctors participating in assisted suicide, specific requirements of medical due care have to be met. What this means in the context of assisted suicide has recently been elaborated by the Swiss Federal Court of Justice...
Open regulation and practice in assisted dyingG Bosshard
Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Med Wkly 132:527-34. 2002..These two concepts allow appreciation of distinctions between the roles of the physician in end-of-life practices and between assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia...- Assessment of requests for assisted suicide by a Swiss right-to-die societyGeorg Bosshard
Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Zurich, CH 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Death Stud 32:646-57. 2008..Exit's paperwork indicated that depression was found to exist in 27% of the cases, was more common among those under 65, and relatives explicitly disagreed with the member's decision in 5% of the cases... - A role for doctors in assisted dying? An analysis of legal regulations and medical professional positions in six European countriesG Bosshard
Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
J Med Ethics 34:28-32. 2008..To analyse legislation and medical professional positions concerning the doctor's role in assisted dying in western Europe, and to discuss their implications for doctors... - Intentionally hastening death by withholding or withdrawing treatmentGeorg Bosshard
Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Wien Klin Wochenschr 118:322-6. 2006..This study aims to provide empirical data on physicians' intentions in withholding and withdrawing treatment, and to discuss possible implications for the ethical debate... - Assisted suicide bordering on active euthanasiaG Bosshard
Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Zurich Irchel, Winterthurerstrasse 190 Bau 52, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland
Int J Legal Med 117:106-8. 2003..On the basis of the fact that she herself had switched the device on this death was classed as (assisted) suicide... - Forgoing treatment at the end of life in 6 European countriesGeorg Bosshard
Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Arch Intern Med 165:401-7. 2005..We studied the incidence of different types of treatment withheld or withdrawn in 6 European countries and analyzed the main background characteristics... - 748 cases of suicide assisted by a Swiss right-to-die organisationGeorg Bosshard
Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Med Wkly 133:310-7. 2003..This study is a retrospective analysis of all case files of assisted suicide kept during the period 1990-2000 by "Exit Deutsche Schweiz", the largest Swiss right-to-die organisation... - Responders and non-responders in a study on medical end-of-life decisions in Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and SwitzerlandSusanne Fischer
Institute of Sociology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Soz Praventivmed 51:24-33. 2006..To determine the direction and magnitude of participation bias in end-of-life research... - Reasons why people in Switzerland seek assisted suicide: the view of patients and physiciansSusanne Fischer
Evaluation Office, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Med Wkly 139:333-8. 2009..We examined the reasons physicians provided for writing the prescription and the reasons patients gave for requesting assistance in dying... - Swiss doctors' attitudes towards end-of-life decisions and their determinants: a comparison of three language regionsSusanne Fischer
University of Zurich, Institute of Sociology, Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Med Wkly 136:370-6. 2006..To investigate attitudes to end-of-life decisions, and the influence of cultural factors and of doctors' personal characteristics on these attitudes... 
Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland: doctors occupy special positionGeorg Bosshard
BMJ 327:51-2; author reply 52-3. 2003- Influence of physicians' life stances on attitudes to end-of-life decisions and actual end-of-life decision-making in six countriesJ Cohen
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, End of Life Care Research Group, Department of Medical Sociology and Health Sciences, Laarbeeklaan 103, B 1090 Brussels, Belgium
J Med Ethics 34:247-53. 2008..To examine how physicians' life stances affect their attitudes to end-of-life decisions and their actual end-of-life decision-making... - Continuous deep sedation: physicians' experiences in six European countriesGuido Miccinesi
Center for Study and Prevention of Cancer, Epidemiology Unit, Florence, Italy
J Pain Symptom Manage 31:122-9. 2006..The high variability of frequency and characteristics of CDS in the studied European countries points out the importance of medical education and scientific debate on this issue... - Palliative care training: a survey of physicians in Australia and EuropeRurik Lofmark
Centre for Bioethics, Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University, Stockholm, Sweden
J Palliat Care 22:105-10. 2006..Irrespective of earlier palliative care training, 87%-98% of the physicians wanted extended training... - Do-not-resuscitate decisions in six European countriesJohannes J M van Delden
University Medical Center Utrecht, Julius Center for Health Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Crit Care Med 34:1686-90. 2006..Most of these decisions are individual, but institutional decisions occur frequently as well. In most countries, the involvement of patients in DNR decision making can be improved... - Role of non-governmental organisations in physician assisted suicideStephen J Ziegler
School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499, USA
BMJ 334:295-8. 2007