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Table 1 Rates of favorable responses according to the status of ICU HCWs

From: ICU health care workers opinion on physician-assisted-suicide and euthanasia: a French survey

 

Physicians (n = 411) (%)

Non-physicians HCWs (n = 738) (%)

p value

In general do you support legislation that would make the right to active assistance in dying?

57.8

87

< 0.01

In the context of intensive care department, do you think legislation that would make the right to active assistance in dying would be desirable and would allow for improved management of the end of life?

42

80.5

< 0.01

In the context of neurodegenerative disease as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), in a patient with major swallowing disorders refusing artificial nutrition do you think that a law that would make legal the right to active assistance in dying would be desirable and would allow for improved management of the end-of-life?

68

85.8

< 0.01

In the context of a prolonged coma related to severe brain injury on spontaneous ventilation with enteral nutrition, having written advance directives requesting active assistance in dying, do you think that legislation that would make the right to active assistance in dying would be desirable and would allow for improved end-of-life management?

72.2

91.7

< 0.01

In the context of a severe cognitive alteration, no longer allowing for home care, having before the onset of cognitive impairment written advance directives corresponding to this situation requesting active assistance in dying, do you think that a law that would make the right to active assistance in dying would be desirable and would allow for improved management of the end-of-life?

62.9

78.7

< 0.01

In a clinical situation of potential applicability, should a legislation that would make the right to active assistance in dying be exclusively reserved for patients who have made an explicit request orally or through advance directives

52.8

56.9

< 0.01

In a clinical situation of potential applicability, can a legislation that would make the right to active assistance in dying be applied to patients who have made a request relayed through the voice of a trusted person?

39.2

53.6

< 0.01

In a clinical situation of potential applicability, can a legislation that would make the right to active assistance in dying be applied to patients who have made the request relayed by the voice of a loved one with family consensus?

36.3

49

< 0.01

If a law authorizes active assistance in dying, do you think that the text of the law could sufficiently incorporate safeguards to avoid abuses in the application of this law?

42.4

48.4

< 0.01

In general do you support legislation that would make the right to active assistance in dying?

65.9%

92.4%

< 0.001

  1. Only questions with answer “yes”; “no”; “I don’t know” are represented in the table