Impact of patient incompetence on decisions to use or withhold life-sustaining treatment
- 30 September 1994
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in American Journal Of Medicine
- Vol. 97 (3), 235-241
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9343(94)90006-x
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