Physicians’ experiences with euthanasia: a cross-sectional survey amongst a random sample of Dutch physicians to explore their concerns, feelings and pressure

Table 2 Pressure in the most recent case of a euthanasia request^a

	Request refused	Request granted	p-value
	Total N = 248	Total N = 245^a
	N (%)	N (%)
I felt pressured by…
the patient to grant the request	146 (60.3%)	32 (13.2%)	< 0.001
the patient or his/her relatives to perform EAS as soon as possible	86 (35.5%)	55 (22.6%)	0.002
relatives of the patients to grant the request	77 (31.7%)	15 (6.2%)	< 0.001
colleagues to refuse the request	9 (3.7%)	5 (2.1%)	0.275
relatives of the patient to refuse the request	8 (3.3%)	5 (2.1%)	0.399
colleagues to grant the request	7 (2.9%)	1 (0.4%)	0.037^b
the management to refuse the request	6 (2.5%)	1 (0.4%)	0.122^b

^aMissings: Refused cases missing cases varied between 5 and 6 (2.0–2.4%), Granted cases missing cases varied between 2 and 3 (0.8–1.2%)
^b 2 cells (50%) had expected count less than 5 hence a Fisher’s Exact test was performed

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