| Characteristic | Distribution of practitioners |
|---|---|
| Family Medicine | 67.7% |
| Nurse Practitioner | 9.4% |
| Palliative Medicine | 8% |
| Anesthsiology | 4.1% |
| Internal Medicine | 3.2% |
| Other | 3% |
| Critical Care and Emergency Medicine | 2.6% |
| Oncology | 1.2% |
| Psychiatry | 0.8% |
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October 2023
Canada
2022
Specialty of MAID provider:
1. Family Medicine includes: Family Medicine, Family and Emergency Medicine
2. Palliative Medicine includes: Palliative Medicine, Family and Palliative Medicine
3. Internal Medicine includes: General Internal Medicine, Palliative care and Urology, Hospital Medicine, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Pneumology
4. Critical Care and Emergency medicine includes: Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, Critical Care and Emergency Medicine
5. Psychiatry includes: Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry
6. Other includes: MAID, Neurology, Respiratory Medicine, Surgeon, Rehabilitation Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Nephrology, Cardiology, Geriatric Medicine, Obstetrician, Otolaryngology
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada 2022, page 41, 2022. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
