Legal Aspects of Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support from Critically Ill Patients in the United States and Providing Palliative Care to Them
- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Thoracic Society in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
- Vol. 162 (6), 2029-2032
- https://doi.org/10.1164/ajrccm.162.6.1-00
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