{"id":9118,"date":"2018-11-01T21:28:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T04:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9118"},"modified":"2023-01-22T15:04:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T23:04:59","slug":"completion-of-medical-certificates-of-death-after-an-assisted-death-an-environmental-scan-of-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9118","title":{"rendered":"Completion of Medical Certificates of Death after an Assisted Death: An Environmental Scan of Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Janine Brown, Lilian Thorpe, Donna Goodridge  <\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"161\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/healthcarepolicy.jpg\" alt=\"Healthcare Policy\" class=\"wp-image-11222\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Healthcare Policy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>Policies and practices have been developed to operationalize assisted dying processes in Canada. This project utilized an environmental scan to determine the spectrum of assisted death reporting practices and medical certificate of death (MCD) completion procedures both nationally and internationally. Findings suggest medically assisted dying (MAiD) is represented on the MCD inconsistently nationally and internationally. Related factors include the specifics of local assisted death legislation and variations in death-reporting legislation, variation in terminology surrounding assisted death and designated oversight agency for assisted dying reporting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Brown J, Thorpe L, Goodridge D. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longwoods.com\/product\/download\/code\/25685\">Completion of Medical Certificates of Death after an Assisted Death: An Environmental Scan of Practices<\/a>.  Healthc Policy. 2018 Nov;14(2):59-67. doi: 10.12927\/hcpol.2018.25685.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janine Brown, Lilian Thorpe, Donna Goodridge AbstractPolicies and practices have been developed to operationalize assisted dying processes in Canada. This project utilized an environmental scan to determine the spectrum of assisted death reporting practices and medical certificate of death (MCD) completion procedures both nationally and internationally. Findings suggest medically assisted dying (MAiD) is represented on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9118\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Completion of Medical Certificates of Death after an Assisted Death: An Environmental Scan of Practices&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,2],"tags":[455,456,457],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-euthanasia","category-journal-article","tag-donna-goodridge","tag-janine-brown","tag-lilian-thorpe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Completion of Medical Certificates of Death after an 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