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Can ‘Best Interests’ derail the trolley? Examining withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration in patients in the permanent vegetative state
- Correspondence to Dr Zoe B Fritz, Division of Health Sciences, Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK; Z.B.M.Fritz{at}warwick.ac.uk
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Can ‘Best Interests’ derail the trolley? Examining withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration in patients in the permanent vegetative state
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- Received July 30, 2015
- Revised May 20, 2016
- Accepted June 10, 2016
- First published August 31, 2016.
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July 28, 2017
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