ArticleJournal of pain and symptom management2020
The Relationship of Palliative Care With Assisted Dying Where Assisted Dying is Lawful: A Systematic Scoping Review of the Literature.
Article in Journal of pain and symptom management, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.
- The experience of nurses when providing care across acts that may be perceived as death hastening: A qualitative evidence synthesis.Palliative medicine · 2025Pooled it
- The Discourse of Medical Assistance in Dying and Its Relationship With Hospice Palliative Care in Canada: An Integrative Literature Review.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Review
- Life, death, and 280 characters: a hashtag analysis of #AssistedSuicide on X (2015-2025).Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- Co-creating end-of-life choices education: A process description of a program to explore community death-literacy in preparation for voluntary assisted dying.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Article
- A Time to Die: Mexican Life Debates and the Paradox of Choice in Palliative Care.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2025Article
- Neurology and physician-assisted suicide: glossary of definitions and terminology.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025Article
- Caregiver accompaniment and non-abandonment in voluntary assisted dying: Phenomenological analysis.Palliative & supportive care · 2025Article
- International Comparison of Underlying Disease Among Recipients of Medical Assistance in Dying.JAMA internal medicine · 2025Article
- Attitudes Toward Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide Among Norwegian Palliative Care Physicians.Palliative medicine reports · 2025Article
- Conscience-Based Barriers to Medical Aid in Dying: A Survey of Colorado Physicians.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Article
- Palliative Care Psychiatry: Building Synergy Across the Spectrum.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- Perspectives of Canadian health leaders on the relationship between medical assistance in dying and palliative and end-of-life care services: a qualitative study.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2024Article
- Finnish Palliative Care Nurses' and Physicians' Perceptions of Spirituality and Spiritual Care Related to Their Attitudes toward End-of-Life Care.Palliative medicine reports · 2024Article
- Contextualizing attitudes toward medical aid in dying in a national sample of interdisciplinary US hospice clinicians: hospice philosophy of care, patient-centered care, and professional exposure.Palliative care and social practice · 2024Article
- The Support Needs of Patients Requesting Medical Aid in Dying and Their Relatives: A Qualitative Study Using Semi-Structured Interviews and Written Narratives.International journal of public health · 2024Article
- Voluntary Assisted Dying/Euthanasia: Will This Have an Impact on Cancer Care in Future Years?Current treatment options in oncology · 2023Review
- Attitudes and Behaviors of Palliative Care Nurses on Euthanasia.Florence Nightingale journal of nursing · 2023Article
- "Respecting our patients' choices": making the organizational decision to participate in voluntary assisted dying provision: findings from semi-structured interviews with a rural community hospice board of management.BMC palliative care · 2022Article
- Medicalisation, suffering and control at the end of life: The interplay of deep continuous palliative sedation and assisted dying.Health (London, England : 1997) · 2022Article
- Being a safe place: a qualitative study exploring perceptions as to how a rural community hospice could respond to enactment of voluntary assisted dying legislation.BMC palliative care · 2022Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
contextA central approach of palliative care has been to provide holistic care for people who are dying, terminally ill, or facing life-limiting illnesses while neither hastening nor postponing death. Assisted dying laws allow eligible individuals to receive medically administered or self-administered medication from a health provider to end their life. The implementation of these laws in a growing number of jurisdictions therefore poses certain challenges for palliative care.
objectivesTo analyze the research literature about the relationship of assisted dying with palliative care, in countries where it is lawful.
methodsA five-stage scoping review process was adapted from the Joanna Briggs Institute. Data sources searched through October 2018 were MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsychINFO, SCOPUS, and ProQuest dissertations and theses, with additional material identified through hand searching. Research studies of any design were included, but editorials or opinion articles were excluded.
resultsAfter reviewing 5778 references from searches, 105 were subject to full-text review. About 16 studies were included: from Belgium (n = 4), Canada (n = 1), Switzerland (n = 2), and the U.S. (n = 9). We found that the relationship between assisted dying and palliative care practices in these locations took varied and sometimes combined forms: supportive, neutral, coexisting, not mutually exclusive, integrated, synergistic, cooperative, collaborative, opposed, ambivalent, and conflicted.
conclusionThe studies in this review cast only partial light on challenges faced by palliative care when assisted dying is legal. There is pressing need for more research on the involvement of palliative care in the developing practices of assisted dying, across a growing number of jurisdictions.
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