Objective To determine health care professionals' understanding of the current legal status
of different end-of-life practices and their future legal status if medical aid in dying were …

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This article is a summary of research that investigated the Canadian and Australian
legislative framework associated with advance directives in health care. The research …

The Voluntary Assisted Dying Act (Vic) will commence operation on 19 June 2019. Doctors
were highly visible in the debate which informed the recent law reform process, and …

The principle of autonomy underpins legal regulation of advance directives that refuse life-
sustaining medical treatment. The primacy of autonomy in this domain is recognised …

At the heart of high stakes end of life (EOL) decisions such as withdrawal of life-sustaining
treatments (WLST) or medical assistance in dying (MAiD), are concerns that vulnerable …

The expansion of patients' rights and the increasing complexity of the science of medicine
raises serious legal and social questions, particularly when they pertain to end-of-life …

Despite the potential harm to patients (and others) and the financial cost of providing futile
treatment at the end of life, this practice occurs. This article reports on empirical research …

The need for appropriate mechanisms guiding end‐of‐life care is increasingly vital. This
commentary compares the use of Advance Care Directives (ACD) in New South Wales and …

Background: For a patient's legal right to make end-of-life treatment decisions to be
respected, health care practitioners, patients and their substitute decision-makers must know …