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cedure in a newborn.None have resulted in prosecution.Dilemmas regarding end-of-life decisions for newborns with a very poor quality of life and presumably unbearable suffering and no hope of improvement are shared by physicians throughout the world.In the Netherlands, obligatory reporting with the aid of a protocol and subsequent assessment of euthanasia in newborns help us to clarify the decision-making process.This approach suits our legal and social culture, but it is unclear to what extent it would be transferable to other countries.
Wattanawaitunechai et al. (Wed,) studied this question.