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 …

Objectives End-of-life policy reforms are being debated in many countries. Research
evidence is used to support different assumptions about the effects of public policies on end …

Background: Medical end-of-life practices are hotly debated in Canada, and data from other
countries are used to support arguments. The objective of this pilot study was twofold: to …

Objectives To determine the role played by law in medical specialists' decision-making
about withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from adults who lack capacity …

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 …

Background Laws that regulate healthcare practice at the end of life reflect the values of the
society where they apply. Traditionally, healthcare professionals rely on their clinical …

Objectives: To investigate why physicians label end-of-life acts as either 'euthanasia/ending
of life'or 'alleviation of symptoms/palliative or terminal sedation', and to study the association …

OBJECTIVES. How do health care professionals assess the care of hospital patients near
the end of life? Are physicians and nurses aware of and in agreement with national …

Abstract Background The “Patients' Rights and End of Life Care” Act came into force in
France in 2005. It allows withholding/withdrawal of life-support treatment, and intensified use …

Background “Life-ending acts without explicit patient request,” as identified in robust
international studies, are central in current debates on physician-assisted dying. Despite …