Background: Belgium's law on euthanasia allows only physicians to perform the act. We
investigated the involvement of nurses in the decision-making and in the preparation and …

Background. Death in modern societies is often preceded by medical end‐of‐life decisions.
Empirical research on these end‐of‐life decisions focuses predominantly on the physicians' …

Medical end-of-life decisions, including physicianassisted death, are known to occur in
several countries (Van der Heide et al., 2003). Preserving the quality of the patient's …

BACKGROUND: Although nurses play an important role in end-of-life care for patients, they
are not systematically involved in end-of-life decisions with a possible or certain life …

Background: Legalization of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has been heavily
debated in many countries. To help inform this debate, we describe the practices of …

Background: Issues concerning legislation and regulation with respect to the role of nurses
in euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide gave the Minister for Health reason to …

Background: Although nurses worldwide are confronted with euthanasia requests from
patients, the views of palliative care nurses on their involvement in euthanasia remain …

Objectives To give insight into Dutch nursing staff's attitudes and involvement regarding
euthanasia. Methods The sample was recruited from a nation-wide existent research panel …

Title. Euthanasia and physician‐assisted suicide in the Dutch homecare sector: the role of
the district nurse Aim. This paper is a report of the findings of a study into the role of district …

Aim. This paper reports the findings of a survey that investigated whether Flemish Catholic
hospitals and nursing homes had developed written ethics policies on euthanasia and how …