• Public health · Jan 1998

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

    • B D Onwuteaka-Philipsen and G van der Wal.
    • Vrije Universiteit, Department of General Practice, Nursing Home Medicine, Social Medicine and Health and Culture, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
    • Public Health. 1998 Jan 1; 112 (1): 53-6.

    BackgroundEuthanasia is performed relatively frequently among AIDS patients.ObjectiveTo examine the relationship between euthanasia and physician assisted suicide (EAS) and AIDS.MethodsA descriptive retrospective study in which data was collected from all cases of EAS which were reported to the Public Prosecutor in North Holland between 1984 and 1993.ResultsIn 7% of the reported cases of EAS the patient had AIDS, and in most of these cases the physician involved was a general practitioner. Both the percentage of AIDS among the cases of EAS and the percentage of EAS among all deaths due to AIDS increased over the years. In 1992, 23% of all deaths due AIDS were reported as cases of EAS.ConclusionsIt seems, in recent years, that EAS has been performed on at least one out of three AIDS patients, which is a far greater percentage than found among other patients.

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