Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition
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Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed. · Mar 2007
Multicenter StudyRelationship of neonatologists' end-of-life decisions to their personal fear of death.
To study the relationship of Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) neonatologists' personal fear of death to their forgoing life-sustaining treatment and hastening death in newborns destined for severe disability and newborns for whom further treatment is considered non-beneficial or overly burdensome. ⋯ ANZ neonatologists' personal fear of death and their attitude to hastening death when further treatment is considered futile are significantly related. Neonatologists' fear of death may influence their end-of-life decisions.