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Canadian Journal of Pain, 2023 Background Pain can influence an individual’s choice to pursue medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and may also influence how family members experience that decision.
Kristie Serota +2 more
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Physician Assisted Dying: A Turning Point? [PDF]
, 2016 Physician Assisted Dying (PAD) has been lawful in some countries since the 1940s and in the United States since 1997. There is a body of social and scientific research that has focused on whether the practice has been misused and whether gaps exist in ...
Gostin, Lawrence O., Roberts, Anna E.
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Outcomes of Live Virus Vaccination in Patients With Vascular Anomalies Being Treated With Sirolimus
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Live vaccination in patients with vascular anomalies (VA) receiving sirolimus remains controversial due to immunosuppressive effects and theoretical risks. Procedure This single‐center retrospective study included patients with VA less than 4 years old at the start of sirolimus therapy who were incompletely vaccinated.
Svatava Merkle +5 more
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Medical Assistance in Dying: Challenges of Monitoring the Canadian Program
Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2020 The Canadian medical assistance in dying (MAID) program, based on an ambitious piece of legislation and detailed regulations, has failed to provide Canadians with sufficient publicly accessible evidence to show that it is operating as mandated by the ...
Jaro Kotalik
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Medical assistance in dying: A paediatric perspective [PDF]
Paediatrics & Child Health, 2018 The Supreme Court decision in Carter v. Canada (2015) has led to changes to the Canadian Criminal Code, such that physician-assisted death is now a legal option for consenting adult patients who have a 'grievous and irremediable medical condition' that causes 'enduring' and 'intolerable' suffering.
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright +13 more
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Why reflexivity matters in the literature of suffering, death, and dying in eating disorders
Journal of Eating DisordersCurrent debates on medical aid in dying and treatment futility in longstanding eating disorders emphasize diagnostic frameworks, ethical principles, and legal statutes.
Scout Silverstein
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim +8 more
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Physician Assisted Dying as an Extension of Healing [PDF]
, 2018 The role of a physician is to provide care for those who seek their assistance. Lisa Yount attributes the most ancient statement about this activity to the Hippocratic Oath.
Marinacci, Zoe I.
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background The management of clinically apparent single lesions or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis, a facultative precursor of nephroblastoma, remains debated. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 37 patients with clinically apparent single or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis (two to three lesions per kidney) among 2347 patients registered between
Nils Welter +17 more
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