Table 1 Questionnaire: willingness to perform euthanasia and PAS and details of the decision making process
From: Palliative care professionals’ willingness to perform euthanasia or physician assisted suicide
1. | A patient has an incurable, painful illness, from which they will die, for example cancer. Would you fulfill his wish and end his life using medication? | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Yes | No | I don’t know | |
2. | If this patient asks for it, would you give him lethal medication so that he can end his own life? | ||
Yes | No | I don’t know | |
3. | A patient has an incurable, painful illness, from which they will not die. Would you fulfill his wish and end his life using medication? | ||
Yes | No | I don’t know | |
4. | If this patient asks for it, would you give him lethal medication so that he can end his own life? | ||
Yes | No | I don’t know | |
5. | I would make this decision by myself in order to not burden others | ||
Yes | No | I don’t know | |
6. | I would not make a decision without consulting my colleagues | ||
Yes | No | I don’t know | |
7. | I would first attempt to treat the patient’s symptoms on order to change his wish | ||
Yes | No | I don’t know | |
8. | For this treatment attempt I would estimate the following amount of time | ||
1 week | 2 weeks | 4 weeks | |