2005-04-09
Medical end-of-life decisions made for neonates and infants in the Netherlands, 1995-2001
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The Lancet , Volume 365 - Issue 9467 p. 1329- 1331
End-of-life decision-making for severely affected infants might be influenced by technical advances and societal debates. In 2001, we assessed the proportion of deaths of infants younger than 1 year that were preceded by end-of-life decisions, by replicating a questionnaire study from 1995. This proportion increased from 62% to 68% (weighted percentages), but the difference was not significant. Most of these decisions were to forgo life-sustaining treatment. Decisions to actively end the lives of infants not dependent on life-sustaining treatment remained stable at 1%. The practice of end-of-life decision-making in neonatology of 2001 has changed little since 1995.
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| doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(05)61030-6, hdl.handle.net/1765/54769 | |
| The Lancet | |
| Organisation | Department of Intensive Care |
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Vrakking, A., van der Heide, A., Onwuteaka-Philipsen, B., Keij-Deerenberg, I., van der Maas, P., & van der Wal, G. (2005). Medical end-of-life decisions made for neonates and infants in the Netherlands, 1995-2001. The Lancet, 365(9467), 1329–1331. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)61030-6 |
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