Medical students' knowledge about end-of-life decision-making
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[Ethical decision-making at the end of life--knowledge and attitudes of medical students].
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Physicians are often confronted with ethical and legal questions at the end of life. In this study we asked medical students at the universities of Mainz and Berlin (Charité) about the "Guidelines on Physicians' Aid to the Dying" issued by the German Medical Association: their moral attitude and legal knowledge regarding the limitation of medical procedures at the end o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Revista Brasileira de Educação Médica
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0100-5502
DOI: 10.1590/s0100-55022011000200005