When reporting MAID deaths, practitioners are required to identify from whom they received the individual's written request for MAID. Consistent with 2019 findings, in 2020 almost half of all written requests were received by practitioners through provincial or regional health authority MAID coordination services (46.4%). This was followed by requests that originated from the patient directly (30.1%) while other practitioners (physicians and nurse practitioners) were the source of 21.1% of requests. Finally, the remaining 2.4% of requests came from other sources such as hospitals, long term care facilities, or other care services, local/regional health authorities, nurses, social workers, or the request was a part of the patient's file.
Prevent 17 deaths, or 32,000 deaths One is ‘ terrorism’, the other is road traffic fatalities
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