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Non-clinical uses of antipsychotics in resource-constrained long-term care facilities: ethically justifiable as lesser of two evils?
- Correspondence to Dr Hojjat Soofi, Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE), Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; hojjat.soofi{at}gmail.com
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Non-clinical uses of antipsychotics in resource-constrained long-term care facilities: ethically justifiable as lesser of two evils?
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- Received September 13, 2022
- Accepted December 26, 2022
- First published December 30, 2022.
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October 18, 2023
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