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Table 4 Advice of consultant according to whether the second physician is a LEIF physician or not

From: Nationwide survey to evaluate the decision-making process in euthanasia requests in Belgium: do specifically trained 2nd physicians improve quality of consultation?

 

All (N = 170)*

LEIF physician (N = 51)

Not LEIF physician or not known (N = 119)†

p-value LEIF vs non-LEIF

Consultant concluded that conditions for euthanasia were met

136 (80.5)

46 (90.2)

90 (76.3)

0.037

Extent to which the judgment of the consultant played a part

    

To a great extent

57 (33.5)

20 (39.2)

37 (31.1)

0.478

To some extent

45 (26.5)

9 (17.6)

36 (30.3)

0.124

Hardly

26 (15.3)

11 (21.6)

15 (12.6)

0.157

Not at all

39 (22.9)

11 (21.6)

28 (23.5)

0.843

  1. *3 missing cases.
  2. †1 to 3 missing cases.