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International Comparison of Underlying Disease Among Recipients of Medical Assistance in Dying. [PDF]

open access: yesJAMA 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   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Witness to Medically-Assisted Dying in Canada

open access: yes, 2021
The central objective of this study is the elicitation of the lived experience of individuals surrounding medically-assisted dying (MAiD) in Canada. An introductory analysis of the current place of MAiD in Canada forms the philosophical basis for the ...
Walsh, Charles
core   +1 more source

Medical error and medical assistance in dying [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Medical Association Journal, 2017
In a letter to CMAJ in the Oct. 4, 2016 issue, Drs. Dembo and Smith seek to buttress the argument for the expansion of medically assisted dying to other pathologies by stating (with regard to the risk of error) “Nowhere else in medicine do we require zero risk of error.”[1][1],[2][2] It is ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Denying Assisted Dying Where Death is Not ‘Reasonably Foreseeable’: Intolerable Overgeneralization in Canadian End-of-Life Law

open access: yesCanadian 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
doaj   +1 more source

Referral for medical assistance in dying [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Medical Association Journal, 2018
Excellent article.[1][1] It seems to me that the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is trying to bully and force physicians to endorse an ideology with the threat of job loss, calling it a patient access issue.
openaire   +2 more sources

Interpreting Irremediability When a Mental Health Disorder is the Sole-qualifying Medical Condition for MAiD

open access: yesCanadian 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
doaj   +1 more source

Supporting nursing roles in medical assistance in dying: Development and evaluation of an evidence-based reflective guide

open access: yesPEC 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
doaj   +1 more source

Semantics and medical assistance in dying [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian 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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The impact of COVID-19 on the experiences of patients and their family caregivers with medical assistance in dying in hospital

open access: yesBMC 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
doaj   +1 more source

Advance Requests for Medically-Assisted Dying [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
When medical assistance in dying (MAiD) was legalized in Canada in June 2016, the question of allowing decisionally capable persons to make advance requests in anticipation of later incapacity was reserved for further consideration during the mandatory parliamentary review originally scheduled to begin in June 2020 (but since delayed by COVID-19).
openaire   +1 more source

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