Specialty of medically assisted death practitioners Canada 2022

In 2022, around 68 percent of medically assisted death practitioners in Canada were family medicine practitioners. This statistic illustrates the distribution of medically assisted death practitioners in Canada in 2022, by specialty.

Distribution of medically assisted death practitioners in Canada in 2022, by specialty

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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Release date

October 2023

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Region

Canada

Survey time period

2022

Supplementary notes

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.

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