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. 2003 Jul 26;327(7408):201-2.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.201.

Twenty five years of requests for euthanasia and physician assisted suicide in Dutch general practice: trend analysis

R L Marquet  1 , A Bartelds, G J Visser, P Spreeuwenberg, L Peters
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Twenty five years of requests for euthanasia and physician assisted suicide in Dutch general practice: trend analysis

R L Marquet et al. BMJ. .
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Number of requests for euthanasia/physician assisted suicide (E/PAS) per 10 000 patients (raw scores and trend; multilevel continuous regression techniques used to estimate trends with 95% confidence intervals calculated on basis of variance between years) and major reasons for requesting E/PAS (multilevel regression technique used to estimate trends)
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