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A matter of life and death: controversy at the interface between clinical and legal decision-making in prolonged disorders of consciousness
Best interests decision-making and end-of-life care for patients in permanent vegetative or minimally conscious states (VS/MCS) is a complex area of clinical and legal practice, which is poorly understood by most clinicians, lawyers and members of the public. In recent weeks, the Oxford Shrieval lec...
Autor principal: | Turner-Stokes, Lynne |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5520010/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27986800 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2016-104057 |
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