Revista médica de Chile
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This paper reviews the sentences dictated between 1993 and 2002 by the Supreme Courts of Canada and the Unites States, the House of Lords and Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the European Human Rights Court, about the validity of the legal prohibition of assistance for suicide. These sentences constituted a judicial consensus about the right to die. This consensus recognized the legal right of patients to reject medical treatments but did not recognize the right to be assisted by a physician to commit suicide. This exclusion is changing in the recent case law of Canada and the United Kingdom, which accepts the fundamental right of terminal patients to medically assisted suicide.
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Revista médica de Chile · Apr 2016
[Cost effectiveness of a theoretical cardiac rehabilitation program after myocardial infarction].
Secondary prevention programs are an essential part of comprehensive care of patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD), and its effectiveness in reducing morbidity or mortality has been proved. ⋯ A comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation program after myocardial infarction is very cost-effective in the context of its implementation in a public health service.
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Revista médica de Chile · Apr 2016
[Suicide attempts and self inflicted harm: a one year follow up of risk behaviors among out of treatment cocaine users].
Cocaine users tend to have a higher frequency of risk behaviors. ⋯ CBP users had a greater frequency of self -inflicted injuries and suicide attempts, both life threatening risk behaviors, than CH users. This profile shows the high vulnerability of CBP users and should encourage further research and design of outreach interventions, particularly focused on this group.