Institutional Objection to Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria, Australia: An Analysis of Publicly Available Policies.

"Declarations Conflict of interest statementLindy Willmott and Ben P. White disclose that they were engaged by the Victorian, Western Australian, and Queensland governments to design and provide the legislatively mandated training for doctors involved in voluntary assisted dying in those states. Eliana Close was employed on these projects and contributed to the training content and design. Louise Keogh and Lindy Willmott disclose funding from the Australian Research Council for the ARC Discovery project, Reducing the Harms Associated with Conscientious Objection to Abortion [project number: 210102916]. These projects and their funders have had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing up the research. The authors have no other interests to declare. Conflict of interest statement Lindy Willmott and Ben P. White disclose that they were engaged by the Victorian, Western Australian, and Queensland governments to design and provide the legislatively mandated training for doctors involved in voluntary assisted dying in those states. Eliana Close was employed on these projects and contributed to the training content and design. Louise Keogh and Lindy Willmott disclose funding from the Australian Research Council for the ARC Discovery project, Reducing the Harms Associated with Conscientious Objection to Abortion [project number: 210102916]. These projects and their funders have had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing up the research. The authors have no other interests to declare."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by CAUL and its Member Institutions This research was supported by the Australian Research Council as part of the Future Fellowship project, Enhancing End-of-Life Decision-Making: Optimal Regulation of Voluntary Assisted Dying [project number: FT190100410], led by Professor Ben P. White. The study funders had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing up the research."