Drugs used for euthanasia in Flanders, Belgium.

Publication Type:

Journal Article

Source:

Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety, Volume 13, Issue 2, p.89-95 (2004)

Keywords:

Belgium, Decision Making, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Utilization, Euthanasia, Humans, Physicians, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Questionnaires

Abstract:

Our aim was to describe and assess the medicinal products and doses used for euthanasia in a series of cases, identified within an epidemiological death certificate study in Belgium, where euthanasia was until recently legally forbidden and where guidelines for euthanasia are not available.