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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Authors: Martins Pereira, Sandra (Author) ; Pasman, H. (Author) ; van der Heide, Agnes (Author) ; van Delden, J. M. (Author) ; Onwuteaka-Philipsen, D. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2015
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 41, Issue: 9, Pages: 766-770
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