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In a Nutshell: The Continuing Saga of Canada\u27s Medical Assistance in Dying Legislation

, 2021
They’ve done it again. Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) law just changed as Parliament passed Bill C-7, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying).
Downie, Jocelyn
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Medical assistance in dying: A reflection tool for pharmacists. [PDF]

Can Pharm J (Ott)
Scenario: A pharmacist recently participated in a medical assistance in dying (MAiD) provision for the first time. In this instance, their involvement primarily centred on the dispensing of medications.
Navarrete J, Gray M, King MA, Mey A, Woods P, Schindel TJ.   +5 more
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Externalist argument against medical assistance in dying for psychiatric illness [PDF]

, 2023
Medical assistance in dying, which includes voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide, is legally permissible in a number of jurisdictions, including the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada.
Maung, Hane Htut
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International Comparison of Underlying Disease Among Recipients of Medical Assistance in Dying. [PDF]

JAMA Intern Med
This cohort study compares the rates of medical assistance in dying across diseases to understand the relative effects of disease and ...
Heidinger B, Webber C, Chambaere K, Close E, Deliens L, Onwuteaka-Philipsen B, Pope T, van der Heide A, White B, Downar J.   +9 more
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Medical assistance in dying legislation: Hospice palliative care providers’ perspectives [PDF]

, 2021
BackgroundAfter over 4 years since medical assistance in dying legalization in Canada, there is still much uncertainty about how this ruling has affected Canadian society.ObjectiveTo describe the positive aspects of medical assistance in dying ...
Buchman, Daniel Z, Serota, Kristie, Joolaee, Soodabeh, Hubert, Matthieu, Ho, Anita, Soodabeh Joolaee, Kristie Serota, Matthieu Hubert, Anita Ho, Daniel Z Buchman   +9 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

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, Claire Link, Siwei Qi, Andrea DeIure, K. Brooke Russell, Fiona Schulte, Caitlin Forbes, James Silvius, Brian Kelly, Barry D. Bultz   +9 more
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Denying Assisted Dying Where Death is Not ‘Reasonably Foreseeable’: Intolerable Overgeneralization in Canadian End-of-Life Law

Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2018
The recent change in Canadian law to allow access to medical assistance in dying restricts eligibility, among its other criteria, to those for whom “natural death has become reasonably foreseeable.” A recent review of certain aspects of the law examined
Kevin Reel
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Interpreting Irremediability When a Mental Health Disorder is the Sole-qualifying Medical Condition for MAiD

Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2022
In this critical commentary, a set of ethical considerations of relevance to the (currently contested) interpretation of irremediability for medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in circumstances where the sole-underlying medical condition is a mental ...
Jeffrey Kirby
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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

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, Rinat Nissim, Debbie Selby, Sally Bean, Elie Isenberg-Grzeda, Tharshika Thangarasa, Gary Rodin, Madeline Li, Sarah Hales   +8 more
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Assistance in Dying: A Comparative Look at Legal Definitions [PDF]

, 2022
Euthanasia, assisted suicide, medical assistance in dying, death with dignity: these and many other different terms are used around the world to capture various types of assistance in dying.
Cavalli, Stefano, Downie, Jocelyn, Gupta, Mona, Blouin, Samuel   +3 more
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