ArticleCancer medicine2023
Evaluating requests for physician-assisted suicide. A survey among German oncologists.
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- Assessment of decisional capacity. A systematic review and analysis of instruments regarding their applicability to requests for assisted suicide.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Pooled it
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- [Articulation of patients' suicidal ideation within the therapeutic context-experiences and needs of hospital healthcare professionals].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2026Article
- [Voluntariness of requests for assisted suicide].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2026Review
- Assisted suicide in Germany: a survey on requests for and current practices of assisted suicide.BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
- [Knowledge and attitudes toward assisted suicide : Survey of members of the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI)].Die Anaesthesiologie · 2025Article
- [Dealing with assisted suicide-knowledge, attitudes and experiences of members of the German Association for Palliative Medicine].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2025Article
- Desire to Die Communication Training for Professionals: Developing Online Formats.Palliative medicine reports · 2025Article
- [Perspectives of a sample of mostly younger doctors on physician-assisted suicide].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2024Article
- Evaluating requests for physician-assisted suicide. A survey among German oncologists.Cancer medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundCancer patients form a notable proportion of requestors for physician-assisted suicide (PAS). This manuscript provides data on German oncologists' views concerning due criteria for the assessment of requests for PAS and quality assurance.
methodsThe German Society of Haematology and Medical Oncology (DGHO) has conducted a survey among its members to elicit data about practices and views on regulating PAS in March 2021. Descriptive analysis and bivariate logistic regression of quantitative data on socio-demographic and other determinants possibly associated with respondents' views on PAS as well as content analysis of qualitative data were performed.
resultsAbout 57.1% (n = 425) of respondents (n = 745) indicated that they had been asked for information about PAS by patients. Information about palliative (92.7%; n = 651) and psychological care options (85.6%; n = 598) was deemed most important in cases of requests for PAS. More than half of the respondents (57.6%; n = 429) were in favour of a formal expert assessment of decisional capacity and about 33.4% (n = 249) favoured a time span of 14 days between the counselling and prescription of a lethal drug. There was no association between participants who received more requests and a preference for disclosing publicly their willingness to assist with suicide. A majority of respondents requested measures of quality assurance (71.3%; n = 531).
conclusionAccording to respondents' views, the regulation of PAS will require diligent procedures regarding the assessment of decisional capacity and counselling. The findings suggest that the development of adequate and feasible criteria to assess the quality of practices is an important task.
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