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Patients Who Seek to Hasten Death by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Qualitative Study

Eva Elizabeth Bolt, H. Roeline Pasman and Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen
The Annals of Family Medicine November 2023, 21 (6) 534-544; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.3037
Eva Elizabeth Bolt
Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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H. Roeline Pasman
Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen
Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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vol. 21 no. 6 534-544
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.3037
PubMed 
38012037

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The Annals of Family Medicine
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1544-1709
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History 
  • Received for publication November 13, 2022
  • Revision received July 21, 2023
  • Accepted for publication August 1, 2023
  • Published online November 27, 2023.

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  1. Eva Elizabeth Bolt, MD, PhD⇑,
  2. H. Roeline Pasman, PhD and
  3. Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, PhD
  1. Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Eva Elizabeth Bolt Department of Public and Occupational Health Location VUmc Van der Boechorstraat 7 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ee.bolt{at}amsterdamumc.nl

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