Old age and forgoing treatment: a nationwide mortality follow-back study in the Netherlands
Background The ageing of the population raises the need to study forgoing treatment decisions among older people.Aim To describe the incidence and decision-making of forgoing treatment and identify age-related differences.Methods A nationwide study of a stratified sample from the Statistics Netherla...
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2015
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 41, Issue: 9, Pages: 766-770 |
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