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Clinical ethics
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The implausibility of response shifts in dementia patients
- Correspondence to Karin Rolanda Jongsma, Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands; karin.jongsma{at}medizin.uni-goettingen.de
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The implausibility of response shifts in dementia patients
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- Received May 7, 2015
- Revised December 1, 2015
- Accepted May 7, 2016
- First published June 2, 2016.
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August 24, 2016
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