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Palliative Care: Dutch Hospice and Euthanasia

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Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia

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We need to be more specific about the diagnosis of patients requesting euthanasia. A colleague and I have published observations about this in Dutch. We have now constructed a model of five categories. Each of the group is characteristic and requires a different intervention. This model makes clear that preventability of euthanasia may differ from group to group.

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  1. Zylicz Z, van Dijk L. Palliatieve zorgverlening en de vraag naar euthanasia. Pro Vita Humana 1995;6:161–168.

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  1. Hospice Rozenheuvel, Rozendaal, The Netherlands

    Zbigniew Zylicz M.D. (Internal medicine specialist, Medical Director)

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  1. Zbigniew Zylicz M.D.
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  1. Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, USA

    David C. Thomasma

  2. Berkeley, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Thomasine Kimbrough-Kushner

  3. Medical Faculty, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerrit K. Kimsma

  4. Medical Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Chris Ciesielski-Carlucci

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Zylicz, Z. (2002). Palliative Care: Dutch Hospice and Euthanasia. In: Thomasma, D.C., Kimbrough-Kushner, T., Kimsma, G.K., Ciesielski-Carlucci, C. (eds) Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-46863-6_11

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-46863-6_11

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht

  • Print ISBN: 978-0-7923-5185-6

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