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The ‘French exception’: the right to continuous deep sedation at the end of life
- Correspondence to Dr Ruth Horn, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford Ox3 7LF, UK; ruth.horn{at}ethox.ox.ac.uk
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The ‘French exception’: the right to continuous deep sedation at the end of life
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- Received July 20, 2017
- Revised September 20, 2017
- Accepted October 3, 2017
- First published October 22, 2017.
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February 24, 2018
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