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Using best interests meetings for people in a prolonged disorder of consciousness to improve clinical and ethical management
- Correspondence to Dr Derick T Wade, OxINMAHR, and Movement Science Group, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK; derick.wade{at}ntlworld.com
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Using best interests meetings for people in a prolonged disorder of consciousness to improve clinical and ethical management
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- Received February 27, 2017
- Revised July 14, 2017
- Accepted July 18, 2017
- First published September 14, 2017.
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April 26, 2018
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