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A matter of life and death: controversy at the interface between clinical and legal decision-making in prolonged disorders of consciousness
- Correspondence to Professor Lynne Turner-Stokes, Regional Rehabilitation Unit, Northwick Park Hospital, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ, UK; lynne.turner-stokes{at}doctors.org.uk, lynne.turner-stokes{at}kcl.ac.uk
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A matter of life and death: controversy at the interface between clinical and legal decision-making in prolonged disorders of consciousness
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- Received November 17, 2016
- Revised November 27, 2016
- Accepted November 29, 2016
- First published December 16, 2016.
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July 28, 2017
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