The Belgian euthanasia law under scrutiny of the highest courts.

What it found

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Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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3. Incidence of reported cases of euthanasia adjusted for demographic composition: a study of ten years of Belgian administrative data (2014-2023).BMC public health · 2025
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4. Incidence and Prevalence of Reported Euthanasia Cases in Belgium, 2002 to 2023.JAMA network open · 2025
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5. Key challenges in providing assisted dying in Belgium: a qualitative analysis of health professionals' experiences.Palliative care and social practice · 2025
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6. Euthanasia for unbearable suffering caused by a psychiatric disorder: improving the regulatory framework.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2024
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7. The Moral Dilemma of Euthanasia Through the Eyes of the Medical Society in Bulgaria.Cureus · 2023
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8. The role of newspapers published in North Sumatra during Indonesia's independence struggle between 1916-1925: A content analysis.F1000Research · 2022
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9. Media coverage of Belgium's first criminal case concerning euthanasia for psychiatric patients: A content analysis of Flemish newspapers and magazines.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022
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Abstract

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