@article{ref1,
title="Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking in Swiss Outpatient Care",
journal="GeroPsych (Bern)",
year="2021",
author="Stängle, S. and Schnepp, W. and Büche, D. and Fringer, A.",
volume="34",
number="2",
pages="73-81",
abstract="Besides physician-Assisted suicide, there is another end-of-life practice under discussion: voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED). In this study, we assess the occurrence of VSED in outpatient care and evaluate nurses attitudes about it. We recruited 395 nurses (24% response rate) in our online survey. The occurrence of VSED in Switzerland lies at 0.5%. Most nurses (84.6%) were aware of VSED, and 39.5% had experienced it with patients. VSED was mostly (70.3%) regarded as a natural death, and nearly all (95.1%) were willing to care for these patients; however, about one-quarter (26.5%) expressed moral concerns. Our results show that VSED occurs in rare cases, and that nurses are willing to accompany patients during this VSED, but express moral concerns. © 2021 Hogrefe Publishing GmbH. All rights reserved.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1662-9647",
doi="10.1024/1662-9647/a000249",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1024/1662-9647/a000249"
}