From: Changes in attitudes towards hastened death among Finnish physicians over the past sixteen years
 | 1999 Increasing the morphine dose | 2015 Increasing the morphine dose | ||||||||
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Attitudes, median VAS (IQR) | Yes | No | P-value* | Yes | No | P-value* | ||||
Active euthanasia is reprehensible | 37 | (11–69) | 14 | (5–39) | < 0.001 | 33 | (5–72) | 24 | (4–64) | 0.162 |
Withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments is reprehensible | 92 | (83–96) | 88 | (72–95) | 0.003 | 95 | (80–99) | 93 | (75–98) | 0.133 |
Assisted suicide is reprehensible | 27 | (9–61) | 11 | (4–28) | < 0.001 | 28 | (2–68) | 10 | (1–49) | < 0.001 |
End-of-life care is satisfying | 38 | (19–51) | 34 | (18–52) | 0.683 | 16 | (2–30) | 14 | (3–45) | 0.363 |
People should pay costs of factitious diseases by themselves | 40 | (23–65) | 47 | (29–75) | 0.047 | 78 | (49–94) | 77 | (47–93) | 0.341 |
Advance directives have been helpful in my decisions | 31 | (10–55) | 36 | (15–54) | 0.199 | 12 | (2–29) | 10 | (2–28) | 0.723 |
Good palliative care enables good death | 19 | (10–25) | 16 | (9–29) | 0.833 | 4 | (1–13) | 4 | (1–13) | 0.869 |
Physicians can’t estimate cancer pain | 35 | (22–70) | 41 | (27–71) | 0.056 | 44 | (23–69) | 50 | (29–74) | 0.006 |
Religion has influence when I make ethical decisions | 77 | (44–94) | 57 | (30–92) | 0.040 | 86 | (49–98) | 78 | (45–98) | 0.130 |
Being a doctor gives me satisfaction | 21 | (11–29) | 19 | (11–30) | 0.456 | 7 | (1–19) | 7 | (2–18) | 0.928 |
My health is excellent | 21 | (10–35) | 20 | (10–31) | 0.273 | 15 | (5–27) | 14 | (06–25) | 0.751 |
I feel burn out, tired to work | 84 | (68–93) | 84 | (62–94) | 0.701 | 88 | (75–96) | 89 | (70–97) | 0.843 |
I’m pleased with my salary | 77 | (51–90) | 70 | (35–87) | 0.082 | 22 | (8–50) | 22 | (7–51) | 0.759 |
It is waste of resources to treat patients over 80 years of age in ICU | 70 | (48–86) | 73 | (49–87) | 0.262 | 82 | (54–94) | 75 | (54–91) | 0.107 |