Should Medical Assistance in Dying Be Extended to Incompetent Patients With Dementia? Research Protocol of a Survey Among Four Groups of Stakeholders From Quebec, Canada

Gina Bravo   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Claudie Rodrigue   ¹ , MSc ;   Vincent Thériault   ¹ , RN, BSc ;   Marcel Arcand   ^{1, 3} , MD, MSc ;   Jocelyn Downie   ^{4, 5} , SJD ;   Marie-France Dubois   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Sharon Kaasalainen   ⁶ , RN, PhD ;   Cees M Hertogh   ⁷ , MD, PhD ;   Sophie Pautex   ⁸ , MD ;   Lieve Van den Block   ⁹ , PhD

¹ Research Centre on Aging, University Institute of Geriatrics of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

² Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Community Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

³ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Family Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

⁴ Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

⁵ Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

⁶ School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

⁷ EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, General Practice & Elderly Care Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

⁸ Geneva University Hospital, Community Medicine and Primary Care, Geneva, Switzerland

⁹ Vrije Universiteit Brussel, UGhent End-of-Life Care Research Group, Brussels, Belgium