DOI: 10.25545/mekyft
title: Search for barriers and facilitators for Canadian medical providers engaging in MAiD

description: The notes field contains the full MEDLINE (Ovid) search strategy for barriers and facilitators for Canadian medical providers engaging in MAiD. The files in this dataset contains the full MEDLINE (Ovid), CINAHL (EBSCO), PsycINFO (EBSCO), EMBASE (Elsevier), and Dissertations & Theses (Proquest) search strategies for this topic. Search dates: (2022-06-09) (2024-07-02) (2025-12-19)
description: Database: Ovid MEDLINE(R) and Epub Ahead of Print, In-Process, In-Data-Review & Other Non-Indexed Citations, Daily and Versions &lt;1946 to December 17, 2025&gt;; searched December 19, 2025

# Query Results 
1 Suicide, Assisted/ 6,758
2 exp Euthanasia/ 15,580
3 ((assist* or aid*) adj2 (dying or death or suicide)).ab,kf,kw,ti. 7,707
4 euthanasia.ab,kf,kw,ti. 25,820
5 maid.ab,kf,kw,ti. 778
6 exp Nurse Practitioners/ 19,984
7 Advanced Practice Nursing/ 2,516
8 "practitioner*".ab,kf,kw,ti. 207,712
9 exp Physicians/ 195,411
10 Students, Medical/ 50,039
11 exp Education, Medical/ 197,391
12 "physician*".ab,kf,kw,ti. 512,472
13 "doctor*".ab,kf,kw,ti. 172,478
14 "provider*".ab,kf,kw,ti. 281,260
15 "specialist*".ab,kf,kw,ti. 145,490
16 (Canad* or British Columbia or Alberta* or Saskatchewan or Manitoba* or Ontario or Quebec or (New Brunswick not New Jersey) or Nouveau Brunswick or Nova Scotia or Nouvelle Ecosse or prince Edward Island or ile du prince edouard or Newfoundland or terre neuve or Labrador or Nunavut or NWT or Northwest Territories or territoire du nord ouest or Yukon or Nunavik or Inuvialuit).mp,jw,nw. or (Abbotsford or Airdrie or Ajax or Aurora or Barrie or Belleville or Blainville or Brampton or Brantford or Brossard or Burlington or Burnaby or Caledon or Calgary or Cape Breton or Chatham Kent or Chilliwack or Clarington or Coquitlam or Drummondville or Edmonton or Fredericton or Fort McMurray or Gatineau or Granby or Grande Prairie or Sudbury or Guelph or Halton Hills or Iqaluit or Inuvik or Kamloops or Kawartha Lakes or Kelowna or Kingston or Kitchener or Langley or Laval or Lethbridge or Levis or Longueuil or Maple Ridge or Markham or Medicine Hat or Milton or Mirabel or Mississauga or Moncton or Montreal or Nanaimo or New Westminster or Newmarket or Niagara Falls or Norfolk County or North Bay or North Vancouver or North Vancouver or Oakville or Oshawa or Ottawa or Peterborough or Pickering or Port Coquitlam or Prince George or Quebec City or Red Deer or Regina or Repentigny or Richmond or Richmond Hill or Saanich or Saguenay or Saint John or Saint-Hyacinthe or Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu or Saint-Jerome or Sarnia or Saskatoon or Sault Ste Marie or Sherbrooke or St Albert or St Catharines or St John's or Strathcona County or Surrey or Terrebonne or Thunder Bay or Toronto or Trois-Rivieres or Vancouver or Vaughan or ((Cambridge or (Halifax or Hamilton or London or Victoria or Waterloo or Welland or Whitby or Windsor)) not (UK or Britain or United Kingdom or England or Australia)) or Whitehorse or Winnipeg or Wood Buffalo or Yellowknife).ab,kf,kw,ti. 641,917
17 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 37,282
18 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 1,405,073
19 16 and 17 and 18 727