Table 2 Summary of evidence of heightened risk in physician-assisted dying in Oregon and the Netherlands

Potentially vulnerable group		Evidence of heightened risk	No evidence of heightened risk
Direct data
	The elderly		×
	Women		×
	Uninsured people		×
	People with AIDS	×

Partly direct, partly inferential data
	People with low educational status		×
	The poor: people with low socioeconomic status		×
	Racial and ethnic minorities		×
	People with chronic physical or mental disabilities or chronic non-terminal illnesses		×
	Minors		×

Inferential or partly contested data
	People with psychiatric illness, including depression and Alzheimer disease		×