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Open Access 09.03.2023 | original article

Statements of Austrian hospices and palliative care units after the implementation of the law on assisted suicide

A qualitative study of web-based publications

In Austria, assisted suicide (AS) is regulated by the recently adopted federal Assisted Dying Act (Sterbeverfügungsgesetz, StVfG) Federal Law Gazette (Bundesgesetzblatt) BGBl. I Nr. 242/2021, which allows terminally ill people access to medically …

verfasst von:
Anna Kitta, MD, M.Sc., Franziska Ecker, MD, Elisabeth Lucia Zeilinger, M.Sc., PhD, Lea Kum, MD, Feroniki Adamidis, MD, Eva Katharina Masel, MD, Ph.D., MSc