Healthcare professionals providing medical assistance in dying (MAiD)
What are the barriers and facilitators?
Canada became the first country to legalise medical assistance in dying (MAiD). Since 2016, the number of patients who choose MAiD is growing at a faster rate than the number of providers engaging in the practice of MAiD. This prompted a team in Canada to plan to scope the literature to map the motivations and challenges facing providers with regard to MAiD, and to identify key themes to guide future research.
The protocol for a scoping review of the barriers and facilitators for engaging in MAiD among providers in Canada is available in the February 2024 issue of JBI Evidence Synthesis.
“While MAiD providers describe the practice as rewarding work, they also report challenges, such as having to refuse a patient who does not meet eligibility criteria; working in facilities that refuse MAiD assessments and provision; insufficient remuneration; changes in relationship dynamics with colleagues who are against MAiD; and an increase in workload, which make providing MAiD difficult.”
In accompanying editorial, the authors summarise the background behind their project. Parts of the editorial can be viewed as an Editorial in Motion:
Go to JBI Evidence Synthesis to access the protocol for the scoping review, accompanying editorial, and editorial in motion.
References
Légère, Karine; Luke, Alison; Doucet, Shelley
JBI Evidence Synthesis. 22(2):155-156, February 2024.
Légère, Karine; Doucet, Shelley; Luke, Alison; Goudreau, Alex
JBI Evidence Synthesis. 22(2):273-280, February 2024.