Participating doctors' perspectives on the regulation of voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: a qualitative study.
Objectives: To investigate the perspectives of doctors involved with voluntary assisted dying in Victoria regarding the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic) and its operation.Design, Setting, Participants: Qualitative study; semi-structured interviews with 32 doctors who had participated in the v...
| Publicado en: | Medical Journal of Australia Vol. 215; no. 3; pp. 125 - 130 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2021
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