Medical assistance in dying for mental illness: a complex intervention requiring a correspondingly complex evaluation approach: commentary, Malhi et al.

Br J Psychiatry

Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Biomedical Ethics Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; and Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Published: August 2024

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