Prevalence of depression and anxiety in patients requesting physicians' aid in dying: cross sectional survey.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of depression and anxiety in terminally ill patients pursuing aid in dying from physicians.

Design: Cross sectional survey.

Setting: State of Oregon, USA.

Veterans affairs primary care clinicians' attitudes toward chronic pain and correlates of opioid prescribing rates.

Objectives: The primary objective of this study was to identify veterans affairs (VA) primary care clinicians' attitudes regarding chronic pain treatment. A secondary objective was to explore relationships between clinician and practice characteristics and an objective measure of opioid prescribing rates.

Design: Cross-sectional study of clinician survey and pharmacy data.

Why Oregon patients request assisted death: family members' views.

Background: Physician assisted death (PAD) was legalized through Oregon's Death with Dignity Act in 1994 and enacted in 1997.

Objective: The objective of this paper was to learn from family members why their loved ones requested PAD.

Design: This study used the cross-sectional survey.

Primary care provider preferences for working with a collaborative support team.

Background: Clinical interventions based on collaborative models require effective communication between primary care providers (PCPs) and collaborative support teams. Despite growing interest in collaborative care, we have identified no published studies describing how PCPs prefer to communicate and interact with collaborative support teams. This manuscript examines the communication and interaction preferences of PCPs participating in an ongoing randomized clinical trial of a collaborative intervention for chronic pain and depression.