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 …

The law regulating medical end-of-life decisions aims to support patients to receive high-
quality health care. It does so through ensuring treatment received reflects the person's …

Background: To effectively care for people who are terminally ill, including those without
decision-making capacity, palliative care physicians must know and understand the legal …

Background Law purports to regulate end-of-life care but its role in decision-making by
doctors is not clear. This paper, which is part of a three-year study into the role of law in …

Background: Palliative medicine and other specialists play significant legal roles in
decisions to withhold and withdraw life-sustaining treatment at the end of life. Yet little is …

This study was designed to investigate healthcare providers' knowledge of palliative care
and perceptions of palliative care barriers before and after promoting the Patient Autonomy …

End-of-life decision making involves clinicians, patients, and relatives; yet, the law in Israel
hardly recognises the role of relatives. This raises the question of the law's impact in practice …

Background Legal issues are common in chronic illness. These include matters of daily life,
such as problems with employment, finances and housing, where rights or entitlements are …

We investigated the impact of perception of socioeconomic burden on beliefs regarding a
patient's autonomy in end-of-life (EOL) decision making. We also sought to identify the …

Death is a reality of life as we will all die. Despite this inevitability, death in the twenty-first
century remains unwelcome and has been sequestered into the enclaves of medical …