Eliana Close

Biographic Data

ID104275
NAMEEliana Close
GIVEN NAMESEliana
FAMILY NAMEClose
SIGNATURECLOSE E
AFFILIATIONSQueensland University of Technology
ORCID0000-0002-7359-3375
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Monitoring medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Canada: Perspectives of physicians, nurse practitioners, and organizational regulatory actors

    Open AccessEliana Close, Jocelyn Downie et al.ARTICLEDeath Studies2025References: 1

    Canada's federal monitoring system for medical assistance in dying (MAiD) commenced in 2018 and was expanded in 2023 to enhance data collection. This article sought to understand the role of monitoring in the regulation of MAiD in Canada. It reports on qualitative interviews conducted with 68 participants from two key groups: MAiD assessors and providers; and "organizational actors" from a range of bodies including government, regulators, profess…

  • Patients' and Caregivers' Suggestions for Improving Assisted Dying Regulation: A Qualitative Study in Australia and Canada

    Open AccessRuthie Jeanneret, Eliana Close et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2024

    INTRODUCTION: Assisted dying (AD) has been legalised in a small but growing number of jurisdictions globally, including Canada and Australia. Early research in both countries demonstrates that, in response to access barriers, patients and caregivers take action to influence their individual experience of AD, as well as AD systems more widely. This study analyses how patients and caregivers suggest other decision-makers in AD systems should addres…

  • Regulatory Action’ by Patients and Family Caregivers to Overcome Barriers to Accessing Voluntary Assisted Dying: A Qualitative Study in Victoria, Australia

    Ruthie Jeanneret, Eliana Close et al.ARTICLEUniversity of New South Wales Law…2024

    Voluntary assisted dying (‘VAD’) commenced in Victoria, Australia, in 2019. Drawing on qualitative interviews, we investigate how patients’ and family caregivers’ actions to overcome access barriers may be conceived of as ‘regulatory’. We adopt Julia Black’s definition of regulation as sustained, focused, and intentional action to alter behaviour. Participants performed various actions to overcome access barriers, primarily motivated by a desire …

  • Who is Eligible for Voluntary Assisted Dying: Nine Medical Conditions Assessed against Five Legal Frameworks

    Ben White, Lindy Willmott et al.ARTICLEUniversity of New South Wales Law…2022Cited by: 1References: 5

    Eligibility criteria in voluntary assisted dying legislation determine access to assistance to die. This article undertakes the practical exercise of analysing whether each of the following nine medical conditions can provide an individual with access to voluntary assisted dying: cancer, motor neurone disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease, Alzheimer’s disease, anorexia, frailty, spinal cord injury and Huntington’s…

  • Regulating voluntary assisted dying practice: A policy analysis from Victoria, Australia

    Open AccessEliana Close, Lindy Willmott et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy2021

  • Comparative and Critical Analysis of Key Eligibility Criteria for Voluntary Assisted Dying under Five Legal Frameworks

    Ben White, Eliana Close et al.ARTICLEUniversity of New South Wales Law…2021Cited by: 2References: 2

    Eligibility criteria determine a crucial question for all voluntary assisted dying frameworks: who can access assistance to die? This article undertakes a critical and comparative analysis of these criteria across five legal frameworks: existing laws in Victoria, Western Australia, Oregon and Canada, along with a model Bill for reform. Key aspects of these criteria analysed are capacity requirements; the nature of the medical condition that will …

  • Legal Challenges to ICU Triage Decisions in the Covid-19 Pandemic: How Effectively Does the Law Regulate Bedside Rationing Decisions in Australia

    Eliana Close, Simon Young et al.ARTICLEUniversity of New South Wales Law…2021References: 1

    The COVID-19 pandemic has raised the difficult question of how to ration scarce intensive care resources when a health system is overwhelmed. Despite substantial ethical scholarship addressing these rationing decisions, little is known about the legal position in Australia. This article considers various legal challenges in response to a clinical scenario denying intensive care admission and a ventilator to a critically ill patient with COVID-19.…

  • Does the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic) Reflect Its Stated Policy Goals

    Ben White, Katrine Del Villar et al.ARTICLEUniversity of New South Wales Law…2020Cited by: 4

    With the commencement of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic) in June 2019, Victoria became the first Australian State to permit voluntary assisted dying. This article considers the extent to which this novel Act reflects its stated policy goals. The first part of the article identifies the purported policy goals of the Act. This analysis draws on the explanatory material accompanying the law, in particular the expert Ministerial Advisory …

  • Futile Treatment in Hospital: Doctors’ Intergroup Language

    Open AccessC Gallois, Lindy Wilmott et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language and Social…2015Cited by: 2References: 23

    Treatment that will not provide significant net benefit at the end of a person's life (called futile treatment) is considered by many people to represent a major problem in the health sector, as it can waste resources and raise significant ethical issues. Medical treatment at the end of life involves a complex negotiation that implicates intergroup communication between health professionals, patients, and families, as well as between groups of he…