Justifying different levels of palliative sedation [2]

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 332-333

  Sulmasy, Daniel P ^a   Curlin, Farr ^a   Brungardt, Gerard S ^b   Cavanaugh, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE WICHITA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEATH; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL ETHICS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; ETHICS; NOTE; UNITED STATES;

HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT;

HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; PALLIATIVE CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950356789     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-152-5-201003020-00016     Document Type: Letter

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