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Study NCT ID: NCT00495482
Status: COMPLETED
Last Update Posted: 2012-11-14
First Post: 2007-07-02

Brief Title: Incurable Ill Patients Attitudes Towards Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Sponsor: Klinikum St Georg gGmbH
Organization: Klinikum St Georg gGmbH

Study Overview

Official Title: Incurable Ill Patients Attitudes to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide A Prospective Multi-Centre Trial in Palliative Care Units in Saxony
Status: COMPLETED
Status Verified Date: 2012-11
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: False
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: ESPIL
Brief Summary: Euthanasia and assisted dying are of growing interest for patients with incurable diseases The possible methods are widely discussed by patient-societies physicians lawyers theologians and philosophers During the last years several opinion-polls were conducted with healthy people or medical stuff but no surveys were conducted to get the attitude of incurable ill patients

The hypothesis of the investigators study is Palliative Care Medicine is a better option for incurable ill patients than an assisted suicide
Detailed Description: None

Study Oversight

Has Oversight DMC: None
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?: None
Is a FDA Regulated Device?: None
Is an Unapproved Device?: None
Is a PPSD?: None
Is a US Export?: None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?: None
Secondary IDs
Secondary ID Type Domain Link
BR-1406-1 None None None