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End of life treatment
— decisions and attitudes of doctors | | Corporate Author | National Council for Palliative Care - NCPC |
| Publisher | National Council for Palliative Care, London, June 2009 |
| Pages | 8 pp (Briefing 17) |
| Source | National Council for Palliative Care, The Fitzpatrick Building, 188-194 York Way, London N7 9AS. E-mail: enquiries@ncpc.org.uk Website: www.ncpc.org.uk |
| Keywords | Terminal care ; Medical care ; Euthanasia ; Attitude ; Doctors ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | This briefing reports on the initial findings from a postal survey of 8857 UK doctors across a range of specialisms carried out by Professor Clive Seale of the Centre for Health Sciences at Queen Mary University of London in 2007 and 2008. Respondents were asked about the decisions they made about the provision, withdrawing or withholding treatment at the end of life, and their attitudes towards physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. Of the 3733 who replied, 2869 had attended one or more people who had died in the previous year (representing more than 70000 deaths). About 40% of the reported deaths involved end of life treatment decisions that were judged to have the potential to shorten life (involving either a "double effect" or a non-treatment decision or NTD). The initial results of the survey have been published in two papers in Palliative Medicine 23(3). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090630004 P |
| Classmark | LV: LK: CY: DP: QT2: 3F * |
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