The Northern California Conference for Guidelines on Aid-in-Dying.

End-of-life care in the United States is inadequate. Long-standing and unresolved issues in the care of the terminally ill have led to debates that have become major bioethical issues. Recognizing that practical solutions to deal with these issues are desperately needed, the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics organized and convened a consensus development conference for health care professionals and health care institutions on Sept. 27 and 28, 1996.