Christopher A Klinger

TL;DR: Evidence from various jurisdictions highlighted a need for clear guidelines and protocols that define each profession's role, scope of practice, and legal boundaries for MAiD.

TL;DR: Successful implementation of effective and efficient best practice approaches to care for the terminally ill, such as shared care, requires concerted action to align system-level characteristics; many factors were identified as being essential but not sufficient.

TL;DR: Adopting a standard S + RT approach for patients with MSCC is likely to increase health care costs but would result in improved outcomes, according to the results of the study.

TL;DR: The study results may assist service planners in the appropriate allocation of resources and service packaging to meet the complex needs of palliative care populations, while higher than expenditures previously reported for a cancer-only population in an urban Ontario setting.

TL;DR: While cost is associated with LOS, other drivers include younger age or admission for respiratory failure, subarachnoid hemorrhage, or after a procedural complication, which should incorporate strategies to optimize critical care use among high-cost patients.