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Best interests versus resource allocation: could COVID-19 cloud decision-making for the cognitively impaired?
- Correspondence to Jordan A Parsons, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PS, UK; jordan.parsons{at}bristol.ac.uk
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Best interests versus resource allocation: could COVID-19 cloud decision-making for the cognitively impaired?
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- Received April 17, 2020
- Accepted April 25, 2020
- First published May 6, 2020.
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June 29, 2020
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