The 14-year follow-up mortality results from the randomized breast cancer screening trial of
the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP) were analyzed with respect to the …

Background Healthcare costs are continuously increasing, and impose a strong responsibility
on governments for an adequate allocation of resources among healthcare provisions and …

Background The quality of care of patients dying in the hospital is often judged as insufficient.
This article describes the protocol of a study to assess the quality of care of the dying …

A small proportion of deaths result from the use of drugs with the intention to hasten death
without an explicit request of the patient. Additional insight into its characteristics is needed for …

Oxime derivatives of 5-oxoalkanenitriles (Ce chain or longer) were cyclized in most cases
with a combination of AcCl and AczO, or AcgO and HC1 to 6-substituted 2-(N-acetylamino) …

… This commission, known as the Remmelink Commission, appointed a research-group
supervised by Professor Paul van der Maas. Since that first nationwide study, similar studies have …

Background Empirical data about end-of-life decision-making practices are scarce. We aimed
to investigate frequency and characteristics of end-of-life decision-making practices in six …

… of zymosan-activated plasma fail to induce inflammation in the gland (IG Colditz and PJ C.
M. Maas; manuscript in preparation). Furthermore the difference in the time-course for return …

Objective To investigate how often physicians act as a consultant in the review of intended
euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS), by whom physicians are asked to act as a consultant, …

This article presents the first results of the Dutch nationwide study on euthanasia and other
medical decisions concerning the end of life (MDEL). The study was done at the request of …