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Justifying terminal care by ‘retrospective quality-adjusted life-years’
- Correspondence to Dr Christopher Cowley, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland; Christopher.cowley{at}ucd.ie
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Justifying terminal care by ‘retrospective quality-adjusted life-years’
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- Received August 25, 2009
- Revised November 10, 2009
- Accepted November 23, 2009
- First published May 3, 2010.
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May 06, 2010
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