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Original Article

More counselling for end-of-life decisions by GPs with own advance directives: A postal survey among German general practitioners

Rieke SchnakenbergInstitute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Correspondence[email protected]
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Lukas RadbruchDepartment of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany;
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Christine KerstingGeneral Medicine, Teaching Area RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany;
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Friederike FrankInstitute of General Practice, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany;
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Stefan WilmDepartment of General Practice, Medical Faculty, Ruhr University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany;
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Denise BeckaInstitute for General Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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Klaus WeckbeckerInstitute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany;
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Markus BleckwennInstitute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany;
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Johannes M. JustInstitute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany;
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Michael PentzekDepartment of General Practice, Medical Faculty, Ruhr University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany;
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Birgitta WeltermannGeneral Medicine, Teaching Area RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany;
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Pages 131-137 | Received 04 Nov 2016, Accepted 13 Dec 2017, Published online: 16 Mar 2018

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