[Trends in the agents used for euthanasia and the relationship with the number of notifications]. - Concepedia

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[Trends in the agents used for euthanasia and the relationship with the number of notifications].

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2006

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Matthias Rürup, Bregje D. Onwuteaka‐Philipsen, Agnes van der Heide, G. Van Der Wal, P.J. van der Maas

Abstract

An increasing proportion of cases of euthanasia is being carried out with the drugs recommended for this purpose. Euthanasia with opioids was rarely reported. Possibly, physicians did not always consider these cases to be euthanasia.