Early experience with medical assistance in dying in Ontario, Canada: a cohort study.

Related Articles Early experience with medical assistance in dying in Ontario, Canada: a cohort study. CMAJ. 2020 02 24;192(8):E173-E181 Authors: Downar J, Fowler RA, Halko R, Huyer LD, Hill AD, Gibson JL Abstract BACKGROUND: Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) was legalized across Canada in June 2016. Some have expressed concern that patient requests for MAiD might be driven by poor access to palliative care and that social and economic vulnerability of patients may influence access to or receipt of MAiD. To examine these concerns, we describe Ontario’s early experience with MAiD and compare MAiD decedents with the general population of…
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