NIH R01 · 2025
Physicians and Medical Aid in Dying: A multimethod study of physicians who do and don't provide MAiD
PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Patients with terminal illnesses face many complex decisions regarding their care at the end of life. Options range from aggressive life-prolonging care to those that aim to minimize suffering and include palliative care (which can occur simultaneously with life-prolonging care) and interdisciplinary hospice care. Enter into this already complicated decisional context a legal option for patients to voluntarily end their lives before their illness advances further: Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD). In 1997, the “Death with Dignity Act” was passed, legalizing MAiD in Oregon. Since that time, 10 states and the District of Columbia have passed MAiD laws, and 8-9 states are…
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