Hospital Responses to the End of Life Option Act: Implementation of Aid in Dying in California

Cindy L Cain; Barbara A Koenig; Helene Starks; Judy Thomas; Lindsay Forbes; Sara McCleskey; Neil S Wenger

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.8690

Hospital Responses to the End of Life Option Act: Implementation of Aid in Dying in California

JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Jul 1;179(7):985-987. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.8690.

Authors

Cindy L Cain¹, Barbara A Koenig², Helene Starks³, Judy Thomas⁴, Lindsay Forbes², Sara McCleskey⁵, Neil S Wenger⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Sociology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham.
² Progam in Bioethics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco.
³ Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle.
⁴ Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, Sacramento.
⁵ Department of Health Policy & Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles.
⁶ Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles.

Abstract

This survey study of statewide California hospitals evaluates the prevalence and institutional characteristics of hospitals and health systems that have either implemented or opted out of the state’s End of Life Option Act.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Hospitals / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Suicide, Assisted / legislation & jurisprudence*

Grants and funding

TL1 TR001883/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States