PMID: 11343484May 10, 2001Paper

Oregon physicians' attitudes about and experiences with end-of-life care since passage of the Oregon Death with Dignity Act

JAMA : the Journal of the American Medical Association
L GanziniMolly A Delorit

Abstract

The Oregon Death with Dignity Act, passed by ballot measure in 1994 and enacted in October 1997, legalized physician-assisted suicide for competent, terminally ill Oregonians, but little is known about the effects of the act on clinical practice or physician perspective. To examine Oregon physicians' attitudes toward and practices regarding care of dying patients since the passage of the Death with Dignity Act. A self-administered questionnaire was mailed in February 1999 to Oregon physicians eligible to prescribe under the act. Of 3981 eligible physicians, 2641 (66%) returned the questionnaire by August 1999. Physicians' reports of their efforts to improve care for dying patients since 1994, their attitudes, concerns, and sources of information about participating in the Death with Dignity Act, and their conversations with patients regarding assisted suicide. A total of 791 respondents (30%) reported that they had increased referrals to hospice. Of the 2094 respondents who cared for terminally ill patients, 76% reported that they made efforts to improve their knowledge of the use of pain medications in the terminally ill. Nine hundred forty-nine responding physicians (36%) had been asked by a patient if they were potentially w...Continue Reading

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