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Incurable Ill Patients Attitudes Towards Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

NCT00495482 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2012-11-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Euthanasia and assisted dying are of growing interest for patients with incurable diseases. The possible methods are widely discussed by patient-societies, physicians, lawyers, theologians and philosophers. During the last years several opinion-polls were conducted with healthy people or medical stuff, but no surveys were conducted to get the attitude of incurable ill patients.

The hypothesis of the investigators' study is: "Palliative Care Medicine is a better option for incurable ill patients than an assisted suicide."

Conditions

  • Incurable Cancer Diseases
  • Other Incurable Diseases

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Armin R Sablotzki, MD · Klinikum St. Georg Leipzig, Clinics of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Therapy

  • Matthias Thieme, MD · Klinikum St. Georg Leipzig, Clinics of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Therapy

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-09-30
Completion
2010-01-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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