"Suicide, Assisted" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Provision (by a physician or other health professional, or by a family member or friend) of support and/or means that gives a patient the power to terminate his or her own life. (from APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed).
| Descriptor ID |
D017236
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.905.850 F01.145.126.980.875.300 I01.880.735.856.300 N02.421.585.905.850
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| Concept/Terms |
Suicide, Assisted- Suicide, Assisted
- Assisted Suicides
- Suicides, Assisted
- Death, Assisted
- Assisted Death
- Assisted Deaths
- Deaths, Assisted
- Assisted Suicide
Physician-Assisted Suicide- Physician-Assisted Suicide
- Physician Assisted Suicide
- Physician-Assisted Suicides
- Suicide, Physician-Assisted
- Suicides, Physician-Assisted
Medically Assisted Suicide- Medically Assisted Suicide
- Suicides, Medically Assisted
- Suicide, Medically Assisted
- Medically Assisted Suicides
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Suicide, Assisted" by people in this website by year, and whether "Suicide, Assisted" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Suicide, Assisted" by people in Profiles.
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Characterizing Kaiser Permanente Southern California's Experience With the California End of Life Option Act in the First Year of Implementation. JAMA Intern Med. 2018 03 01; 178(3):417-421.
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Motivations for physician-assisted suicide. J Gen Intern Med. 2005 Mar; 20(3):234-9.
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Characteristics and proportion of dying Oregonians who personally consider physician-assisted suicide. J Clin Ethics. 2004; 15(2):111-8.
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Clinician-patient interactions about requests for physician-assisted suicide: a patient and family view. Arch Intern Med. 2002 Jun 10; 162(11):1257-65.