Supporting nursing roles in medical assistance in dying: Development and evaluation of an evidence-based reflective guide [PDF]
PEC Innovation, 2023 Objective: To develop and evaluate an evidence-based online Reflective Guide to prepare Registered Nurses and Nurse Practitioners for important professional, personal, and relational roles in MAID in Canada.
Barbara Pesut +3 more
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Medical Assistance in Dying in Oncology Patients: A Canadian Academic Hospital’s Experience [PDF]
Current Oncology, 2022 Background: Medical assistance in dying (MAID) was legislatively enacted in Canada in June 2016. Most studies of patients who received MAID grouped patients with cancer and non-cancer diagnoses.
Tony Liu +11 more
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The impact of COVID-19 on the experiences of patients and their family caregivers with medical assistance in dying in hospital [PDF]
BMC Palliative Care, 2023 Background The COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures have drastically impacted end-of-life and grief experiences globally, including those related to medical assistance in dying (MAiD). No known qualitative studies to date have examined the MAiD
Eryn Tong +8 more
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Symptom Burden and Complexity in the Last 12 Months of Life among Cancer Patients Choosing Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Alberta, Canada [PDF]
Current Oncology, 2022 Background: In 2019, cancer patients comprised over 65% of all individuals who requested and received Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada. This descriptive study sought to understand the self-reported symptom burden and complexity of cancer ...
Linda Watson +9 more
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Medical Assistance in Dying in Psychiatry, An Ethical Analysis. [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2023 Introduction Assisted dying (AD) is a general term in the literature to incorporate both physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and voluntary active euthanasia. In 2002 Belgium became the first country in the world to specifically acknowledge mental suffering
K. Keenan
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Medical Assistance in Dying: Challenges for Psychiatry [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018 Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), which comprises euthanasia and medically assisted suicide, is practiced in a growing number of countries and jurisdictions. In countries where it is permitted, the individual who requests it must be experiencing severe pain and suffering, but not all countries require the individual to be terminally ill.
Roland M. Jones, Alexander I. F. Simpson
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Factors That Influence Access to Medical Assistance in Dying Services: An Integrative Review [PDF]
Health ExpectationsBackground In nearly all jurisdictions where it is permitted, Medical Assistance in Dying is situated in a healthcare system. Currently, limited evidence demonstrates how supply and demand factors influence access to Medical Assistance in Dying ...
Jayne Hewitt +3 more
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Semantics and medical assistance in dying [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2018 In the recent editorial by the editor-in-chief of the CMAJ, [1][1] the language used, even if it is prefaced by “to be blunt,” is out of place. To say “This is not mere semantics — to be blunt, the physician must ask another health care provider to consider killing their patient” is to ...
Jean-Roch Lafrance
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Medical Assistance in Dying, Data and Casting Assertions Aside. [PDF]
J Palliat Med, 2023 Abstract As the author outlines in the introduction to the chapter, he wrote this article in response to presentations that took place at a symposium on medical assistance in dying, in an effort to separate data and research from assertions and opinions.
Chochinov HM.
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Decriminalising and legalising medical assistance in dying
South African Medical Journal-
J P van Niekerk +7 more
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