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'At the cutting edge' Interview by Jannetje Koelewijn

scientific article published in January 2007

A comparison of attitudes towards end-of-life decisions: survey among the Dutch general public and physicians

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

A protocol for consultation of another physician in cases of euthanasia and assisted suicide

scientific article

A qualitative validation of the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire

scientific article

Accepting or declining the offer of prenatal screening for congenital defects: test uptake and women's reasons

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Active Voluntary Euthanasia or Physician‐Assisted Suicide? ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 October 1997

Active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in Dutch nursing homes: patients' characteristics

scientific article published in September 1995

Antibiotic treatment and survival of nursing home patients with lower respiratory tract infection: a cross-national analysis.

scientific article

Are counsellors' attitudes influencing pregnant women's attitudes and decisions on prenatal screening?

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

Are pregnant women making informed choices about prenatal screening?

scientific article

Assessment model for the justification of intrusive lifestyle interventions: literature study, reasoning and empirical testing

scientific article published on 19 February 2016

Assessment of physician-assisted death by members of the public prosecution in The Netherlands.

scientific article

Attitudes and practices concerning the end of life: a comparison between physicians from the United States and from The Netherlands

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Attitudes and risk perception of parents of different ethnic backgrounds regarding meningococcal C vaccination

scientific article published in May 2005

Attitudes of Dutch general practitioners and nursing home physicians to active voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

scientific article published in November 1995

Attitudes of physicians, nurses and relatives towards end-of-life decisions concerning nursing home patients with dementia

scientific article published on 21 June 2005

Attitudes of potential providers towards preconceptional cystic fibrosis carrier screening

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

Awareness and use of practice guidelines on medical end-of-life decisions in Dutch hospitals

scientific article published on 11 September 2009

Benefits and pitfalls of pooling datasets from comparable observational studies: combining US and Dutch nursing home studies

scientific article published in September 2008

Cases of euthanasia and assisted suicide reported to the public prosecutor in North Holland over 10 years

scientific article published on March 1996

Cases of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide among AIDS patients reported to the Public Prosecutor in North Holland ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

Change in what matters to palliative patients: eliciting information about adaptation with SEIQoL-DW.

scientific article

Clinical problems with the performance of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in The Netherlands

scientific article (publication date: 24 February 2000)

Communication about euthanasia in general practice: opinions and experiences of patients and their general practitioners

scientific article published on 8 December 2006

Consultants in cases of intended euthanasia or assisted suicide in The Netherlands

scientific article published in April 1999

Consultation and discussion with other physicians in cases of requests for euthanasia and assisted suicide refused by family physicians

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Continuous Deep Sedation: Physicians' Experiences in Six European Countries

article published in 2006

Correlations of knowledge and preference of medical students for a specialty career: a case-study of youth health care

scientific article

Culture-specific diabetes care for Surinam South Asians with a low socio-economic position: who benefits?

scientific article

Dealing with requests for euthanasia: a qualitative study investigating the experience of general practitioners

scientific article

Decisions to treat or not to treat pneumonia in demented psychogeriatric nursing home patients: development of a guideline.

scientific article

Decreasing the number of consultations for minor illnesses of Turkish and Dutch inhabitants of a deprived area in The Netherlands: an intervention study

scientific article published on 07 January 2005

Defining the patient population: one of the problems for palliative care research

scientific article published on March 2006

Dementia, Lower Respiratory Tract Infection, and Long-Term Mortality

scientific article published on 14 June 2007

Depression and explicit requests for euthanasia in end-of-life cancer patients in primary care in the Netherlands: a longitudinal, prospective study ⬇️

scientific article published on March 18, 2011

Design of a retrospective patient record study on the occurrence of adverse events among patients in Dutch hospitals

scientific article (publication date: 25 February 2007)

Design of a study on suboptimal cognitive acts in the diagnostic process, the effect on patient outcomes and the influence of workload, fatigue and experience of physician

scientific article

Development and dissemination of institutional practice guidelines on medical end-of-life decisions in Dutch health care institutions

scientific article published on 03 November 2009

Development of an interest in a career in public health during medical school

article by Marc B.M. Soethout et al published April 2008 in Public Health

Differences between terminally ill cancer patients who died after euthanasia had been performed and terminally ill cancer patients who did not request euthanasia

scientific article published in December 2005

Direct medical costs of adverse events in Dutch hospitals

scientific article

Discomfort in nursing home patients with severe dementia in whom artificial nutrition and hydration is forgone

scientific article published in August 2005

Do Findings of High Mortality From Pneumonia in the Elderly Make It the Old Man's Friend?

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Doctor-assisted dying: what difference does legalisation make?

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Does offering prenatal screening influence pregnant women's attitudes regarding prenatal testing?

scientific article published on 05 August 2008

Does prenatal screening influence anxiety levels of pregnant women? A longitudinal randomised controlled trial

scientific article published in April 2006

Does stimulating self-care increase self-care behaviour for minor illnesses of Dutch and Turkish inhabitants of a deprived area in The Netherlands?

scientific article published on 19 October 2005

Drugs used to alleviate symptoms with life shortening as a possible side effect: end-of-life care in six European countries

scientific article published on February 2006

Dutch experience of monitoring euthanasia

scientific article published in September 2005

Dying at home or in an institution using death certificates to explore the factors associated with place of death

scientific article published on 15 December 2005

EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL: the new standard in the assessment of health-related quality of life in advanced cancer?

article

Education on end-of-life care in the medical curriculum: students' opinions and knowledge

scientific article published in April 2010

End-of-Life Decision Making in Europe and Australia

article

End-of-life decision making in nursing home residents with dementia and pneumonia: Dutch physicians' intentions regarding hastening death

scientific article

End-of-life decision-making in six European countries: descriptive study

scientific article

End-of-life practices in the Netherlands under the Euthanasia Act

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Ervaringen van familie met de besluitvorming rond kunstmatige toediening van vocht en voedsel (ktvv) bij mensen met dementie in het verpleeghuis

scientific article published in April 2006

European public acceptance of euthanasia: socio-demographic and cultural factors associated with the acceptance of euthanasia in 33 European countries

scientific article published on 14 March 2006

Euthanasia and assisted suicide by physicians in the home situation. 2. Suffering of the patients

scientific article

Euthanasia and assisted suicide. I. How often is it practised by family doctors in The Netherlands?

scientific article published in June 1992

Euthanasia and assisted suicide: facts, figures and fancies with special regard to old age.

scientific article published in September 1998

Euthanasia and old age

scientific article published on 01 November 1997

Euthanasia and other end-of-life decisions in the Netherlands in 1990, 1995, and 2001.

scientific article published in August 2003

Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide among patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the Netherlands

scientific article published in May 2002

Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a prospective study

scientific article

Euthanasia in family practice in The Netherlands. Toward a better understanding

scientific article

Euthanasia in the Netherlands

scientific article (publication date: 21 May 1994)

Euthanasia requests and cancer types in the Netherlands: is there a relationship?

scientific article published on 07 July 2008

Euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and other medical practices involving the end of life in the Netherlands, 1990-1995.

scientific article published in November 1996

Euthanatics: implementation of a protocol to standardise euthanatics among pharmacists and GPs ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 1997

Evaluation of the notification procedure for physician-assisted death in the Netherlands

scientific article published on November 1996

Feeding nursing home patients with severe dementia: a qualitative study

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

Forgoing artificial nutrition and hydration in nursing home patients with dementia: patients, decision making, and participants.

scientific article

Frequency and determinants of advance directives concerning end-of-life care in The Netherlands

scientific article published on 12 September 2005

Frequency of decisions to forgo (artificial) administration of food and fluids at life's end

scientific article published on 01 October 1997

Granted, undecided, withdrawn, and refused requests for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide

scientific article published in August 2005

Guidelines for the use of do-not-resuscitate orders in Dutch hospitals

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Guidelines on euthanasia and pain alleviation: compliance and opinions of physicians

scientific article

How patients and relatives experience a visit from a consulting physician in the euthanasia procedure: a study among relatives and physicians

scientific article

How should preconceptional cystic fibrosis carrier screening be provided? Opinions of potential providers and the target population

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Implementation of the project 'Support and Consultation on Euthanasia in The Netherlands' (SCEN).

scientific article

Informed decision making in the context of prenatal screening

scientific article published on 20 October 2005

Interdisciplinary cooperation of GPs in palliative care at home: a nationwide survey in The Netherlands

scientific article

Legal physician-assisted dying in Oregon and the Netherlands: evidence concerning the impact on patients in "vulnerable" groups

scientific article published on October 2007

Life-terminating actions by family practitioners and nursing home physicians without the patient's request

scientific article published on 01 February 1994

Listen to their answers! Response behaviour in the measurement of physical and role functioning

scientific article published on May 2008

Measuring discomfort in patients with dementia. Validity of a Dutch version of the Discomfort Scale--dementia of Alzheimer type (DS-DAT)

scientific article published in December 2002

Medical end-of-life decisions for children in the Netherlands

scientific article published in September 2005

Medical end-of-life decisions made for neonates and infants in the Netherlands, 1995-2001

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Nature, occurrence and consequences of medication-related adverse events during hospitalization: a retrospective chart review in the Netherlands

scientific article published on October 2010

No improvement of disciplinary jurisprudence since the implementation of the Individual Health Care Professions Act (IHCP Act)

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Palliative care consultation in the Netherlands: a nationwide evaluation study

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Parents' perceived vulnerability and perceived control in preventing Meningococcal C infection: a large-scale interview study about vaccination

scientific article

Patient record review of the incidence, consequences, and causes of diagnostic adverse events

scientific article published on June 2010

Patient work in end-stage heart failure: a prospective longitudinal multiple case study

scientific article published in January 2006

Patients' appreciation of single fraction radiotherapy for painful bone metastases

scientific article

Physician reports of terminal sedation without hydration or nutrition for patients nearing death in the Netherlands

scientific article

Physician-assisted death in psychiatric practice in the Netherlands

scientific article published in June 1997

Physicians' experiences with demented patients with advance euthanasia directives in the Netherlands

scientific article published in July 2005

Physicians' opinions on palliative care and euthanasia in the Netherlands

scientific article published on October 2006

Physicians' willingness to grant requests for assistance in dying for children: a study of hypothetical cases

scientific article published in May 2005

Pneumonia: the demented patient's best friend? Discomfort after starting or withholding antibiotic treatment

scientific article published in October 2002

Policies on Assisted Suicide in Dutch Psychiatric Facilities ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

Policy statements and practice guidelines for medical end-of-life decisions in Dutch health care institutions: developments in the past decade

scientific article published on 01 April 2009

Preconceptional cystic fibrosis carrier screening: attitudes and intentions of the target population

scientific article published in January 2004

Predicted Survival vs. Actual Survival in Terminally Ill Noncancer Patients in Dutch Nursing Homes

article published in 2006

Predictors of mortality for lower respiratory infections in nursing home residents with dementia were validated transnationally

scientific article published on 23 May 2006

Predictors of survival in nursing home patients with severe dementia in whom artificial nutrition and hydration are [corrected] forgone

scientific article published on 18 January 2006

Preferences in end-of-life care of older persons: after-death interviews with proxy respondents

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Preferences of the Dutch general public for a good death and associations with attitudes towards end-of-life decision-making

scientific article published in October 2006

Prevalence and content analysis of guidelines on handling requests for euthanasia or assisted suicide in Dutch nursing homes

scientific article published on 01 February 2000

Prevalence and content of written ethics policies on euthanasia in Catholic healthcare institutions in Belgium (Flanders)

article

Problems eliciting cues in SEIQoL-DW: quality of life areas in small-cell lung cancer patients

scientific article published in April 2006

Proxy reporting in after-death interviews: the use of proxy respondents in retrospective assessment of chronic diseases and symptom burden in the terminal phase of life ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2003

Public experiences, knowledge and expectations about medical genetics and the use of genetic information.

scientific article

Quality management systems and clinical outcomes in Dutch nursing homes

Quality of care for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Netherlands and the United States: a comparison of two quality improvement programs

scientific article

Quality of consultation and the project 'Support and Consultation on Euthanasia in the Netherlands' (SCEN).

scientific article published on 18 April 2006

Quality of life change and response shift in patients admitted to palliative care units: a pilot study

article

Quality of patient record keeping: an indicator of the quality of care?

scientific article published on 08 February 2011

Radiographic images and the emergence of optimism about recovery in patients with small cell lung cancer: an ethnographic study

scientific article published in July 2003

Recruiting end-of-life cancer patients in the Netherlands for a study on suffering and euthanasia requests ⬇️

scientific article published on June 15, 2011

Regulating physician-assisted dying for minors in the Netherlands: views of paediatricians and other physicians

scientific article published on January 2007

Relating faults in diagnostic reasoning with diagnostic errors and patient harm

scientific article published on February 2012

Requests for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide and the availability and application of palliative options

scientific article published in December 2006

Requests for euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide from older persons who do not have a severe disease: an interview study

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

Requests for euthanasia: origin of suffering in ALS, heart failure, and cancer patients

scientific article published on 11 February 2010

Requests to forgo potentially life-prolonging treatment and to hasten death in terminally ill cancer patients: a prospective study

scientific article published on 01 February 2006

Reserved procedures in Dutch hospitals: knowledge, experiences and views of physicians and nurses

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

Risky procedures by nurses in hospitals: problems and (contemplated) refusals of orders by physicians, and views of physicians and nurses

scientific article published on 28 January 2005

Severe Dementia and Adverse Outcomes of Nursing Home-Acquired Pneumonia: Evidence for Mediation by Functional and Pathophysiological Decline

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

Small-cell lung cancer patients are just 'a little bit' tired: response shift and self-presentation in the measurement of fatigue

scientific article published on 15 February 2007

Spiritual issues in palliative care consultations in the Netherlands.

scientific article

Starting artificial nutrition and hydration in patients with dementia in The Netherlands: frequencies, patient characteristics and decision-making process

scientific article published in February 2007

Striving for quality or length at the end-of-life: attitudes of the Dutch general public

scientific article published on 8 December 2004

Support and consultation for general practitioners concerning euthanasia: the SCEA project. Support and Consultation in Euthanasia in Amsterdam

scientific article published on 01 April 2001

Symptom burden in the last week of life

scientific article published in January 2004

Symptoms, signs, problems, and diseases of terminally ill nursing home patients: a nationwide observational study in the Netherlands

scientific article

Symptoms, treatment and "dying peacefully" in terminally ill cancer patients: a prospective study

scientific article published on 2 December 2004

Symptoms, unbearability and the nature of suffering in terminal cancer patients dying at home: a prospective primary care study

scientific article

Terminal sedation and euthanasia: a comparison of clinical practices

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

The acceptability of waiting times for elective general surgery and the appropriateness of prioritising patients

scientific article

The broad spectrum of unbearable suffering in end-of-life cancer studied in dutch primary care ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2012

The disciplinary code for nurses and its contribution to the quality of nursing care in the Netherlands

scientific article published in September 2005

The emotional impact on physicians of hastening the death of a patient

scientific article published on November 2001

The euthanasia law in Belgium and the Netherlands

scientific article published in October 2003

The incidence, root-causes, and outcomes of adverse events in surgical units: implication for potential prevention strategies

scientific article

The inter-rater agreement of retrospective assessments of adverse events does not improve with two reviewers per patient record

scientific article published on 26 May 2009

The last 3 months of life: care, transitions and the place of death of older people

scientific article published on September 2005

The last two days of life of nursing home patients – a nationwide study on causes of death and burdensome symptoms in the Netherlands

article by Hella E Brandt et al published July 2006 in Palliative Medicine

The nature and causes of unintended events reported at ten emergency departments

scientific article

The psychometric properties of the 'Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture' in Dutch hospitals

scientific article

The role of patient safety culture in the causation of unintended events in hospitals

scientific article published in December 2012

The role of the nurse in active euthanasia and physician‐assisted suicide ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 August 1997

The role of the social network in active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide

scientific article published on 01 September 1996

The use of drugs for euthanasia and assisted suicide in family practice

scientific article published on July 3, 1992

To what extent are adverse events found in patient records reported by patients and healthcare professionals via complaints, claims and incident reports?

scientific article

Treatment of nursing home residents with dementia and lower respiratory tract infection in the United States and The Netherlands: an ocean apart

scientific article published in May 2004

Treatment strategy and risk of functional decline and mortality after nursing-home acquired lower respiratory tract infection: two prospective studies in residents with dementia

scientific article published on 01 October 2007

Trends and determinants of end-of-life practices in ALS in the Netherlands

scientific article published in September 2009

Trends in acceptance of euthanasia among the general public in 12 European countries (1981-1999).

scientific article published on 26 April 2006

Unbearability of suffering at the end of life: the development of a new measuring device, the SOS-V.

scientific article

Unbearable suffering and requests for euthanasia prospectively studied in end-of-life cancer patients in primary care

scientific article

Understanding pregnant women's decision making concerning prenatal screening

scientific article published on 01 July 2008

Unrequested termination of life: is it permissible? ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1993

Using death certificate data to study place of death in 9 European countries: opportunities and weaknesses

scientific article

Using potentially life-shortening drugs in neonates and infants

scientific article published in July 2000

Views of physicians, disciplinary board members and practicing lawyers on the new statutory disciplinary system for health care in The Netherlands

scientific article published on 24 August 2005

Voluntary active euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide: knowledge and attitudes of Dutch medical students ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 1996

Waiting for elective general surgery: physical, psychological and social consequences

scientific article published on May 2004

When being 'tired of living' plays an important role in a request for euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide: patient characteristics and the physician's decision

scientific article published on 5 February 2005

When should physicians forgo curative treatment of pneumonia in patients with dementia? Using a guideline for decision-making.

scientific article

Withdrawing an explicit request for euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide: a retrospective study on the influence of mental health status and other patient characteristics

scientific article

Withholding antibiotic treatment in pneumonia patients with dementia: a quantitative observational study

scientific article published in August 2002

Withholding or starting antibiotic treatment in patients with dementia and pneumonia: prediction of mortality with physicians' judgment of illness severity and with specific prognostic models.

scientific article published in March 2005

Withholding or withdrawing artificial administration of food and fluids in nursing-home patients ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 November 2001

Withholding the artificial administration of fluids and food from elderly patients with dementia: ethnographic study

scientific article

Work-related disease in general practice: a systematic review

scientific article

[Assessment of reporting procedure euthanasia]

scientific article published on 01 September 1995

[Disciplinary measures for healthcare practitioners in the Netherlands 1983-2002]

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

[End-of-life decision making in six European countries]

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

[End-of-life decision making in six European countries]

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

[Euthanasia and assisted suicide by physicians in the home situation. I. Diagnoses, age and sex of patients]

scientific article published on 01 August 1991

[Experience of family members with the decision concerning artificial nutrition and hydration in people with dementia in nursing homes]

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

[Facilitators and barriers in implementing units for short term terminal care in nursing homes]

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

[Foregoing artificial feeding and hydration for nursing home patients in the last phase of life]

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

[Fourth evaluation of the law on the review of termination of life on request and assisted suicide (Euthanasia Act)]

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

[Guideline 'Diagnosis and treatment of community-acquired pneumonia' from the Dutch Thoracic Society]

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

[Late pregnancy interruption in Noord-Holland. I. Incidence and abnormalities]

scientific article published on 01 March 1996

[Late pregnancy interruption in Noord-Holland. II. Carefulness before and review afterwards]

scientific article published on 01 March 1996

[New research on the practice, reporting and reviewing of euthanasia and other medical end-of-life decisions, 2001/2002]

scientific article published on 01 September 2001

[No conspicuous changes in the practice of medical end-of-life decision-making for neonates and infants in the Netherlands in 2001 as compared to 1995]

scientific article published in September 2005

[Patient safety in hospitals]

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

[Publication practice and policy for disciplinary proceedings regarding health care in the Netherlands]

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

[Scientific research in nursing home medicine: a prerequisite for professionalization]

scientific article published on 01 September 1995

[Similarities and differences between the euthanasia laws in Belgium and the Netherlands]

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

[Trends in the agents used for euthanasia and the relationship with the number of notifications]

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

[Whether or not to treat pneumonia curatively in (demented) psychogeriatric patients: evaluation of a guideline for nursing home physicians]

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

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