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Too much safety? Safeguards and equal access in the context of voluntary assisted dying legislation

BMC Medical Ethics, 2020
Background In June 2019, the Australian state of Victoria joined the growing number of jurisdictions around the world to have legalised some form of voluntary assisted dying.
Rosalind McDougall, Bridget Pratt
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How can we improve the experiences of patients and families who request medical assistance in dying? A multi-centre qualitative study

BMC Palliative Care, 2021
Background Medical assistance in dying has been available in Canada for 5 years, but it is unclear which practices contribute to high-quality care. We aimed to describe patient and family perspectives of quality of care for medical assistance in dying ...
Simon J. W. Oczkowski, Diane E. Crawshaw, Peggy Austin, Donald Versluis, Gaelen Kalles-Chan, Michael Kekewich, Dorothyann Curran, Paul Miller, Michaela Kelly, Ellen Wiebe, Andrea Frolic   +10 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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Medical assistance in dying: research directions [PDF]

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2019
Euthanasia and assisted suicide, both sometimes referred to as medical assistance in dying (MAiD), have in recent years become increasingly important concerns for public health and for end-of-life care. In a context of increased life expectancy, protracting illness trajectories before death and changing discourses around patient autonomy, dignity and ...
Sigrid Dierickx, Joachim Cohen
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Medical Assistance in Dying

Journal of Palliative Medicine, 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.
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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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Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: is medical support ethically justified? [PDF]

, 2017
Background Physician-assisted dying has been the subject of extensive discussion and legislative activity both in Europe and North America. In this context, dying by voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) is often proposed, and practiced, as an
Anneser, Johanna, Black, Isra, Borasio, Gian Domenico, Jox, Ralf J   +3 more
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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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Corrigendum: Medical Assistance in Dying in Quebec: A Continuum Between Teams’ Accountability and Interdisciplinary Support Groups’ Assumption of Responsibility [PDF]

International Journal of Public Health
Catherine Perron, Catherine Perron, Eric Racine, Eric Racine, Marie-Eve Bouthillier, Marie-Eve Bouthillier   +5 more
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A role for doctors in assisted dying? An analysis of legal regulations and medical professional positions in six European countries [PDF]

, 2008
An extensive debate about assisted suicide and euthanasia has been taking place in westernized countries during the last twenty years. Traditionally, the medical profession has maintained a clear distance from euthanasia and assisted suicide, but this ...
Bosshard, G., Broeckaert, B., Clark, D., Gordijn, B., Materstvedt, L.J., Müller-Busc, C.   +5 more
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