Eight Things We Would Never Do Regarding End-of-life Care in the ICU

Overview

Journal Intensive Care Med

Specialty Critical Care

Date 2019 Mar 9

PMID 30847514

Citations 6

Authors

E Wesley Ely

Elie Azoulay

Charles L Sprung

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