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Descriptor English: Suicide, Assisted
Descriptor Spanish: Suicidio Asistido
Descriptor suicidio asistido
Entry term(s) muerte asistida
suicidio asistido por un médico
suicido con asistencia médica
Scope note: Prestación a un paciente (por un médico u otro profesional sanitario, un miembro de la familia o un amigo) de apoyo o medios para poder poner fin a su vida. (Traducción libre del original: APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.)
Descriptor Portuguese: Suicídio Assistido
Descriptor French: Suicide assisté
Entry term(s): Assisted Death
Assisted Deaths
Assisted Suicide
Assisted Suicides
Death, Assisted
Deaths, Assisted
Medically Assisted Suicide
Medically Assisted Suicides
Physician Assisted Suicide
Physician-Assisted Suicide
Physician-Assisted Suicides
Suicide, Medically Assisted
Suicide, Physician-Assisted
Suicides, Assisted
Suicides, Medically Assisted
Suicides, Physician-Assisted
Tree number(s): E02.760.905.850
F01.145.126.980.875.300
I01.880.735.856.300
N02.421.585.905.850
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017236
Scope note: Provision (by a physician or other health professional, or by a family member or friend) of support and/or means that gives a patient the power to terminate his or her own life. (from APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed).
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
EH ethnology
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PC prevention & control
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Euthanasia (1976-1992)
Suicide (1976-1992)
Public MeSH Note: 93
History Note: 93
Related: Euthanasia MeSH
Euthanasia, Active MeSH
Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary MeSH
DeCS ID: 30490
Unique ID: D017236
NLM Classification: WB 65
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1993/01/01
Date of Entry: 1992/05/22
Revision Date: 2015/06/29
Suicide, Assisted - Preferred
Concept UI M0026152
Scope note Provision (by a physician or other health professional, or by a family member or friend) of support and/or means that gives a patient the power to terminate his or her own life. (from APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed).
Preferred term Suicide, Assisted
Entry term(s) Assisted Death
Assisted Deaths
Assisted Suicide
Assisted Suicides
Death, Assisted
Deaths, Assisted
Suicides, Assisted
Physician-Assisted Suicide - Narrower
Concept UI M0026151
Preferred term Physician-Assisted Suicide
Entry term(s) Physician Assisted Suicide
Physician-Assisted Suicides
Suicide, Physician-Assisted
Suicides, Physician-Assisted
Medically Assisted Suicide - Narrower
Concept UI M0026150
Preferred term Medically Assisted Suicide
Entry term(s) Medically Assisted Suicides
Suicide, Medically Assisted
Suicides, Medically Assisted



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