Willingness to be present throughout patient death via medical aid in dying in a national sample of interdisciplinary US hospice clinicians: a content analysis of rationales [PDF]
Palliative Care and Social PracticeBackground: Although medical aid in dying (MAID) legalization continues to expand across the United States, limited research has elucidated attitudes toward its clinical provision, especially in terms of clinician presence.
Todd D. Becker +5 more
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Contextualizing attitudes toward medical aid in dying in a national sample of interdisciplinary US hospice clinicians: hospice philosophy of care, patient-centered care, and professional exposure [PDF]
Palliative Care and Social PracticeBackground: Despite extensive theoretical debate, empirical research on medical aid in dying (MAID) largely has disregarded broader, contextual factors as potential correlates of attitudes in hospice clinicians.
Todd D. Becker +5 more
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Quebec physicians' perspectives on medical aid in dying for incompetent patients with dementia. [PDF]
Can J Public Health, 2018 To elicit Quebec physicians' attitudes towards extending medical aid in dying (MAiD) to incompetent patients and to compare the attitudes of family physicians to those of other medical specialists.We conducted a postal survey among physicians caring for patients with dementia.
Bravo G +9 more
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Rethinking Medical Aid in Dying: What Does It Mean to 'Do No Harm?' [PDF]
J Adv Pract Oncol, 2023 Medical aid in dying is the act of prescribing lethal medications to a consenting patient who can self-ingest them with the intent of hastening their death. A majority of patients who utilize medical aid in dying are patients with terminal cancer.
Lawry DR.
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CONTEXTUALIZING ATTITUDES TOWARD MEDICAL AID IN DYING IN A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF HOSPICE CLINICIANS [PDF]
Innov Aging, 2023 Research on the contextual characteristics informing the care that hospice professionals offer patients interested in medical aid in dying (MAID) is lacking. Thus, we aimed to explore MAID attitudes vis-à-vis hospice values and state law.
Todd Becker +5 more
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RELIGIOSITY, DEATH EXPOSURE, AND HEALTH LITERACY AS PREDICTORS FOR ATTITUDES TOWARD MEDICAL AID IN DYING (MAID) [PDF]
Innov Aging, 2023 Only legal in ten states (Death with Dignity, 2023), Medical aid in dying (MAID) is the current term for requesting lethal medication through a physician to end one’s life.
Alissa McIntyre +2 more
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Ars Moriendi. Ethical Challenges of the Ultimate Realities of Life [PDF]
Ethics in Progress, 2022 The aim of this issue of Ethics in Progress is to provide a provisional, open-ended view on the ultimate realities of life and the ethical challenges they pose in medical, sociological, and existential contexts.
Sara Sgarlata +2 more
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Survey of Mental Health Care Providers’ Perspectives on the Everyday Ethics of Medical-Aid-in-Dying for People with a Mental Illness [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2020 Context: In most jurisdictions where medical-aid-in-dying (MAiD) is available, this option is reserved for individuals suffering from incurable physical conditions.
Marjorie Montreuil +3 more
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Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2019 This article examines an ethical controversy that has received relatively little attention in public debates about the legalization of medical aid-in-dying (AID): should physicians inform patients that they have the option of hastening death?
Mara Buchbinder
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MAID ready for primetime?: A survey of SGO members regarding medical aid in dying (MAID) [PDF]
Gynecologic Oncology Reports, 2021 Objectives: To assess SGO members’ knowledge, attitudes, and practice patterns regarding Medical Aid In Dying (MAID). Methods: SGO members were surveyed via online survey.
Alaina J. Brown +5 more
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