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Guest editorial: Charlie Gard’s five months in court: better dispute resolution mechanisms for medical futility disputes
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Contributors TMP is the sole author of this editorial.
Funding The author has not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
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Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
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