| Literature DB >> 15823383 |
Astrid M Vrakking1, Agnes van der Heide, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Ingeborg M Keij-Deerenberg, Paul J van der Maas, Gerrit van der Wal.
Abstract
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.Entities:
Keywords: Death and Euthanasia; Empirical Approach
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Year: 2005 PMID： 15823383 DOI： 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)61030-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Lancet ISSN： 0140-6736 Impact factor: 79.321