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Clinical ethics
Operating room time as a limited resource: ethical considerations for allocation
- Correspondence to Dr Patrick David Kelly, Department of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA; patrick.d.kelly{at}vumc.org
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Operating room time as a limited resource: ethical considerations for allocation
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- Received May 26, 2020
- Revised October 25, 2020
- Accepted November 1, 2020
- First published December 10, 2020.
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December 22, 2021
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