When do we stop, and how do we do it? medical futility and withdrawal of care
- 29 April 2003
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of the American College of Surgeons
- Vol. 196 (4) , 621-651
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1072-7515(03)00106-6
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