Background Health professionals and medical students have knowledge gaps about the law
that governs end-of-life decision-making. There is a lack of dedicated training on end-of-life …

Background Insufficient knowledge about end-of-life law can impede the provision of safe
and high-quality end-of-life care. Accurate legal knowledge across health professions is …

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 …

Objective The aim of the present study was to identify online resources community members
may access to inform themselves about their legal duties and rights in end-of-life decision …

Objective To describe the knowledge of end‐of‐life law and experiences in practice at the
end of life amongst Australian general practitioners (GPs). Methods A cross‐sectional online …

Objectives: To examine doctors' level of knowledge of the law on withholding and
withdrawing life‐sustaining treatment from adults who lack decision‐making capacity, and …

The law has a clear role to play in supporting patients and their substitute decision makers
(SDMs) to be involved in end-of-life (EOL) decision making. Although existing literature …

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 …

AIM: To explore the importance of health workforce training, particularly in newly regulated
healthcare practices such as assisted dying (AD). This study aims to analyse the socio …

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 …