These criteria concern the patient's request, the patient's suffering (unbearable and hopeless), the information provided to the patient, the presence of reasonable alternatives, consultation of another physician and the applied method of ending life.
The results indicate that women were twice as likely (OR = 2.03) to have an alternative care consultation than men (the reference group) and that younger (20 to 34 years old, OR = 2.33), middle aged 35-499 years old, OR = 2.60) and older adults 50-644 years old, OR = 1.89) were more likely to have a consultation than those age 65 or over (the reference group).
Each of the three health-related measures had a positive influence on alternative care consultation.
The objective of this paper is to examine the geographic and socio-demographic characteristics of alternative care consultation in Ontario, Canada's largest province.
In Table 4, the sample is reduced to just people who had an alternative care consultation and omits all those who did not.
Table 7 shows the results of regression Models 2 to 4. In these, the sample size is reduced to only those who reported having an alternative care consultation.
** Percent of alternative care consultations The analysis of the CCHS data reveals a variable geographic pattern of alternative health care consultations.
If implementation of guideline recommendations remains sub-optimal, alternatives to health professional delivery of patient review and self management support needs to be investigated, such alternatives include consultation aids or tools such as educational leaflets, videos [ 15- 19] or computer software [ 20].
Finally, Model 1 indicates that geography was not a factor in alternative care consultations in Ontario with neither of the two variables (Census rural or MIZ) having significant odds ratios.
The use of CAM was more frequent than in our study (87% of the first group, 92% of the latter, vs. 61%), but included lifetime prevalence for chiropractic and alternative practitioner consultations.
