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Suicide, Assisted

"Suicide, Assisted" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Suicide, Assisted" by people in this website by year, and whether "Suicide, Assisted" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 28 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 1998 and 2018 and 2019
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