What’s suffering got to do with it? A qualitative study of suffering in the context of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)

Table 1 Participant characteristics (N = 50)

Characteristics	Number	Percent
Nurse Designation
Registered Nurse	34	68
Nurse Practitioner	16	32
Ethnicity
Caucasian	45	90
Other	5	10
Province of Work
BC	23	46
Ontario	21	42
Other	6	12
Geographic Context^a
Urban	41	82
Rural	28	56
Remote	8	16
Population worked with^a
Specialized palliative	26	52
Primary care	17	34
Medical surgical	13	26
Other	11	22
Number of MAID deaths experienced
0–9	15	30
10–24	17	34
25 or more	18	36

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