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A Legal Overview of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada

, 2021
Jocelyn Downie, CM, FRSC, FCAHS, SJD, professor in the Faculties of Law and Medicine at Dalhousie University, provides a legal overview of medical assistance in dying in Canada - including eligibility criteria, procedural safeguards, Advance Requests ...
Downie, Jocelyn
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Identifying Patterns of Hospitalizations Among Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Population‐Based Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) experience more hospitalizations than the general population. We aimed to identify distinct hospitalization patterns among Queensland CCSs and the associated characteristics. Methods Cases (aged ≤14 years) diagnosed between 1995 and 2019 while residents of Queensland were identified through the ...
Hai Pham, Teyl Engstrom, Peter Baade, Natalie Bradford, Sarah Pont, Louise Marquart‐Wilson, Natasha Nassar, Jason D. Pole   +7 more
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Medical assistance in dying (MAID): Putting a value on human life and right to die [PDF]

, 2020
Nurses across Canada are directly impacted by changes to the Criminal Code that now allow the implementation of medical assistance in dying (MAID). Many nurses verbalized their conflicting beliefs, values and expressed uncertainty or hesitancy to engage ...
Ahmad, Nora
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Impact of Initial Treatment Setting on Survival in Relapsed Pediatric and AYA Bone Sarcomas: A Secondary Analysis of a Prospective Clinical Trial

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Outcomes in relapsed or refractory pediatric and AYA bone sarcomas remain poor, and the impact of early referral to specialized sarcoma centers on survival is unclear. Early centralization of care may improve local and systemic treatment quality, but evidence in this population is limited.
Justyna Antoniuk‐Majchrzak, Katarzyna Bilska, Tomasz Koziński, Jadwiga Węcławek‐Tompol, Dorota Sega‐Pondel, Radosław Chaber, Wanda Badowska, Katarzyna Rosłan, Hanna Koseła‐Paterczyk, Anna Raciborska   +9 more
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Effectiveness of Resistance Intradialytic Exercise Compared to Aerobic Intradialytic Exercise for Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis commonly experience reduced physical function, fatigue, poor sleep quality, and impaired health‐related quality of life. Intradialytic exercise has been proposed as a non‐pharmacological strategy to improve these outcomes.
Klebson da Silva Almeida, Gisela Cristiane Miyamoto, Daniel da Costa Torres, Ian Setubal Reis Chaves, Jonas do Carmo Paschoalin, Braúlio Lima Nascimento, Luciana Dias Chiavegato   +6 more
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Course on Death and Dying for Medical Students [PDF]

, 2020
The aim of modern medicine is to prolong life by fighting death. Doctors have traditionally believed that this was an ethical good deed. The negative connotation surrounding death has led to the avoidance of terminally ill patients.
Korean Medical Education Review (의학교육논단), Joong Chul Park   +1 more
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Assisted Dying in Canada: Ideology Masquerading as Medicine?

Canadian Journal of Bioethics
The Canadian medical assistance in dying (MAID) law is commonly understood as a type of medically-based euthanasia and/or assisted suicide (EAS) law. I argue it is instead an autonomy-only EAS regime masquerading as such.
Scott Y. H. Kim
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L’assistance à mourir : un tour d’horizon comparatif des définitions juridiques

Sociologies, 2023
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.
Jocelyn Downie, Mona Gupta, Stefano Cavalli, Samuel Blouin   +3 more
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Safety of Daprodustat for the Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease Anemia: Final Analysis of a Multicenter Postmarketing Surveillance Study in Japan

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction This final analysis of a multicenter, prospective postmarketing surveillance study evaluated the safety of daprodustat in patients with chronic kidney disease anemia in routine clinical practice in Japan. Methods Patients who initiated daprodustat between September 2020 and July 2022 were registered.
Tadao Akizawa, Kyomi Kanaya, Kiyomi Aizawa, Masanori Onoki, Hirofumi Ozeki, Kazuko Suzuki, Ai Hayashi, Tomohiko Asamura   +7 more
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Does Allowing Track 2 MAiD Harm Disabled People?

Canadian Journal of Bioethics
In 2021, in response to the Superior Court of Quebec’s decision in Truchon v. Canada, the Canadian Parliament amended the Criminal Code to allow Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) for some people who don’t have a “reasonably foreseeable natural death ...
Nicholas Abernethy
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