Survey of doctors' opinions of the legalization of physician assisted suicide.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Assisted dying has wide support among the general population but there is evidence that those providing care for the dying may be less supportive. Senior doctors would be involved in implementing the proposed change in the law. We aimed to measure support for legalizing physician assisted dying in a representative sample of senior doctors in England and Wales, and to assess any association between doctors' characteristics and level of support for a change in the law.

Methods

We conducted a postal survey of 1000 consultants and general practitioners randomly selected from a commercially available database. The main outcome of interest was level of agreement with any change in the law to allow physician assisted suicide.

Results

The corrected participation ra

SUBMITTER: Lee W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2673229 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature