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Should We Provide Life-Sustaining Treatments to Patients with Permanent Loss of Cognitive Capacities?

A very troubling issue for health care systems today is that of life-sustaining treatment for patients who have permanently lost their cognitive capacities. These include patients in persistent vegetative state (PVS), or minimally conscious state (MCS), as well as a growing population of patients at...

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Autores principales: Golan, Ofra G., Marcus, Esther-Lee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Rambam Health Care Campus 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3678818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23908842
http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10081