The Futility Debate: Effective versus Beneficial Intervention
- 1 August 1994
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Vol. 42 (8) , 883-886
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1994.tb06564.x
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