Family physicians' perspective on voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: a cross-sectional study.

Although about one in three Swiss family physicians have accompanied a person during VSED, family physicians lack sufficient in-depth knowledge to address patients and their relatives in an appropriate manner during the process. Further training and development of practice recommendations are needed to achieve more standardized accompaniment of VSED.International Registered Report Identifier: DERR1-10.2196/10358.