Futility in the intensive care unit: hard cases make bad law.

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Critical Care Medicine

• Publication date

  2010-08-01

• Fields of study

  Law, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181e8783cPMID 20647800
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