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| Jac RietjensSummaryAffiliation: Erasmus MC Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Reporting of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands: descriptive studyHilde Buiting
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Med Ethics 10:18. 2009..We studied which arguments Dutch physicians use to substantiate their adherence to the criteria and which aspects attract review committees' attention...
Judgement of suffering in the case of a euthanasia request in The NetherlandsJ A C Rietjens
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Med Ethics 35:502-7. 2009..The extent to which general practitioners (GPs), consulted physicians and members of the euthanasia review committees judge this criterion similarly was evaluated...- Deciding about continuous deep sedation: physicians' perspectives: a focus group studyJ A C Rietjens
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Palliat Med 23:410-7. 2009..Accordingly, the reasons for its use are not unambiguous and need further debate... - Palliative sedation in a specialized unit for acute palliative care in a cancer hospital: comparing patients dying with and without palliative sedationJudith A C Rietjens
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Pain Symptom Manage 36:228-34. 2008.... - Continuous deep sedation for patients nearing death in the Netherlands: descriptive studyJudith Rietjens
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, Netherlands
BMJ 336:810-3. 2008..To study the practice of continuous deep sedation in 2005 in the Netherlands and compare it with findings from 2001... 
Having a difficult time leaving: experiences and attitudes of nurses with palliative sedationJudith A C Rietjens
Buehler Center on Aging, Health and Society, Northwestern University s Feinberg School of Medicine, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Palliat Med 21:643-9. 2007..Palliative sedation is an important topic of medical and ethical debates. Although nurses often participate in its use, little is known about their attitudes and experiences...- Using drugs to end life without an explicit request of the patientJudith A C Rietjens
Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, P O Box 2040, 3000CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Death Stud 31:205-21. 2007..The use of drugs with the intention to hasten death without an explicit request of the patient is part of medical end-of-life practice in the studied countries, regardless of their legal framework, and it occurs in similar fashion... - Preferences of the Dutch general public for a good death and associations with attitudes towards end-of-life decision-makingJudith A C Rietjens
Department of Public Health, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Palliat Med 20:685-92. 2006..Insight in the relationships of such acceptance, with characteristics considered important for a 'good death', may contribute to the understanding of this liberal attitude... - Terminal sedation and euthanasia: a comparison of clinical practicesJudith A C Rietjens
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Arch Intern Med 166:749-53. 2006..An important issue in the debate about terminal sedation is the extent to which it differs from euthanasia. We studied clinical differences and similarities between both practices in the Netherlands... - A comparison of attitudes towards end-of-life decisions: survey among the Dutch general public and physiciansJudith A C Rietjens
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, P O Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Soc Sci Med 61:1723-32. 2005..Continued monitoring of practices and informing the general public and policymakers about the clinical and ethical consequences of different types of end-of-life decisions is important... - Physician reports of terminal sedation without hydration or nutrition for patients nearing death in the NetherlandsJudith A C Rietjens
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Ann Intern Med 141:178-85. 2004..Terminal sedation in patients nearing death is an important issue related to end-of-life care... - Striving for quality or length at the end-of-life: attitudes of the Dutch general publicJudith A C Rietjens
Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Public Health, The Netherlands
Patient Educ Couns 59:158-63. 2005..The latter was related to undertaking initiatives to engage in advance care planning. Awareness of differences in attitudes towards life-prolonging treatment within the public may improve communication about appropriate end-of-life care... - End-of-life practices in the Netherlands under the Euthanasia ActAgnes van der Heide
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
N Engl J Med 356:1957-65. 2007..In 2005, we performed a follow-up study of euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and other end-of-life practices... - Forgoing artificial nutrition or hydration in patients nearing death in six European countriesHilde M Buiting
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Pain Symptom Manage 34:305-14. 2007..Providing all patients who are in the terminal stage of a lethal disease with ANH does not seem to be a widely accepted standard among physicians in Western Europe... - Medical end-of-life decisions for children in the NetherlandsAstrid M Vrakking
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC and Erasmus MC Sophia, Children s Hospital, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:802-9. 2005..Most end-of-life decision-making studies have, until now, involved either the general population or newborn infants... - Exploration of concerns of relatives during continuous palliative sedation of their family members with cancerSilvia van Dooren
Department of Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Pain Symptom Manage 38:452-9. 2009..Availability of caregiver guidance and clear process documentation are crucial and indispensable in providing this... - A comparison of physicians' end-of-life decision making for non-western migrants and Dutch natives in the NetherlandsHilde M Buiting
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Eur J Public Health 18:681-7. 2008..As the first wave of this relatively young group is growing older, we investigated, for the first time, whether end-of-life decision-making practices for non-western migrants differ from Dutch natives... - Attitudes of patients with incurable cancer toward medical treatment in the last phase of lifeElsbeth Voogt
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, P O Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Clin Oncol 23:2012-9. 2005..We studied the relationship of patients' attitudes toward treatment with advance care planning and the development of these attitudes after diagnosis of incurable cancer... - 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... - Dutch experience of monitoring euthanasiaBregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen
Department of Public and Occupational Health, Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU University Medical Centre, 1081 BT Amsterdam, Netherlands
BMJ 331:691-3. 2005 - Euthanasia and other end-of-life decisions in the Netherlands in 1990, 1995, and 2001Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen
Department of Social Medicine and Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, Vrije Universitat University Medical Center, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lancet 362:395-9. 2003..Since 1995, the demand for physician-assisted death has not risen among patients and physicians, who seem to have become somewhat more reluctant in their attitude towards this practice...