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ArticleOmega2022

Cross-Sectional Research Into People Passing Away Through Self-Ingesting Self-Collected Lethal Medication After Receiving Demedicalized Assistance in Suicide.

Martijn Hagens, H Roeline W Pasman, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen

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Article in Omega, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Martijn HagensDepartment of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute (APH), Amsterdam UMC, location VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9616-2685
H Roeline W PasmanDepartment of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute (APH), Amsterdam UMC, location VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Bregje D Onwuteaka-PhilipsenDepartment of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute (APH), Amsterdam UMC, location VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Amsterdam University Medical Centers · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study describes the characteristics of-and the counseling received by-counselees who passed away through self-ingesting self-collected lethal medication after receiving demedicalised assistance in suicide. We analyzed registration forms filled in by counselors working with Foundation De Einder about 273 counselees who passed away from 2011 to 2015. The majority of these counselees had a serious disease and physical or psychiatric suffering. Half of them had requested physician assistance in dying. This shows that patients with a denied request for physician assistance in dying can persist in their wish to end life. This also shows that not all people with an underlying medical disease request for physician assistance in dying. Physicians and psychiatrist are often uninvolved in these self-chosen deaths while they could have a valuable role in the process concerning assessing competency, diagnosing diseases, and offering (or referring for) treatment.

Indexed as

EuthanasiaSuicideSuicide, AssistedCounselingCross-Sectional StudiesHumansassisted dying/suicidecounselingeuthanasiaright to diesuicide

Identifiers

PMID32484034
PMCPMC8848061
OpenAlexW3031632477

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Registered trials

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