Assessment of decision-making capacity in patients requesting assisted suicide
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ASHP statement on pharmacist decision-making on assisted suicide.
Consistent with the intent of the Code of Ethics for Pharmacists “to state publicly the principles that form the fundamental basis of the roles and responsibilities of pharmacists,” the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists issues this Statement on Pharmacist Decisionmaking on Assisted Suicide. The practice of providing competent patients with pharmaceutical means of ending their lives ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.2018.81