NCT00495482

Incurable Ill Patients Attitudes Towards Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Incurable Ill Patients Attitudes to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: A Prospective, Multi-Centre Trial in Palliative Care Units in Saxony

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-09-01
• Completion: 2010-01-01
• First posted: 2007-07-03
• Last updated: 2012-11-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany