| Title |
Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking at the end of life – a ‘systematic search and review’ giving insight into an option of hastening death in capacitated adults at the end of life
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Palliative Care, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-684x-13-1 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nataša Ivanović, Daniel Büche, André Fringer |
| Abstract |
The terminally ill person's autonomy and control are important in preserving the quality of life in situations of unbearable suffering. Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) at the end of life has been discussed over the past 20 years as one possibility of hastening death. This article presents a 'systematic search and review' of published literature concerned with VSED as an option of hastening death at the end of life by adults with decision-making capacity. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 9 | 50% |
| Brazil | 1 | 6% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 39% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 7 | 39% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 6% |
| Scientists | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1% |
| South Africa | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 89 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 10% |
| Researcher | 8 | 9% |
| Other | 19 | 20% |
| Unknown | 27 | 29% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 21 | 23% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 17% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 8% |
| Psychology | 4 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 9 | 10% |
| Unknown | 33 | 35% |
Attention Score in Context
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