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PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
Withholding and withdrawing life support in critical care settings: ethical issues concerning consent
- Correspondence to: E Gedge Department of Philosophy, University Hall 310, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1; gedge{at}mcmaster.ca
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Withholding and withdrawing life support in critical care settings: ethical issues concerning consent
Publication history
- Accepted May 26, 2006
- Revised April 7, 2006
- Revised April 7, 2006
- First published March 30, 2007.
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April 27, 2016
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Copyright 2007 by the Journal of Medical Ethics
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