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ArticleOmega2026

Diversity and Access to Palliative Care and Medical Assistance in Dying in an Urban Setting.

Sylvie Fortin, Sabrina Lessard, Marie-Ève Samson

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Article in Omega, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sylvie FortinDepartment of Anthropology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6504-5582
Sabrina LessardDepartment of Anthropology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8917-0270
Marie-Ève SamsonDepartment of Anthropology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.ORCID 0009-0007-0004-2349
Université de Montréal · CACentre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article focuses on the end-of-life experiences of migrants and non-migrants from young to old, who died in a Canadian cosmopolitan city in the years preceding the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on interviews with over one hundred relatives of as many deceased, the authors discuss end of life issues, namely access to palliative care and medical assistance in dying. The data indicate unequal access to care at the intersection of several factors, including type of disease, patient's age, uncertainty of their prognosis, and migrant/non-migrant status. While being young and having cancer were undeniably associated with the provision of care (curative and palliative), those who did not benefit from palliative care tended to be social minorities in the local society and suffered from diseases with ambiguous prognosis. The right to "Die with dignity" is fundamental, with or without palliative care and regardless of where the end of life takes place.

Indexed as

COVID-19Health Services AccessibilityPalliative CareSuicide, AssistedTerminal CareTransients and MigrantsAdultAgedAged, 80 and overCanadaFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSARS-CoV-2Urban Populationdiversityend of life experiencesmedical assistance in dyingpalliative carequalitative research

Identifiers

PMID38448056
PMCPMC13002951
OpenAlexW4392756647

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