How certain are you, doctor?

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 71-72

  Gillis, Jonathan ^a   Tobin, Bernadette ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL ETHICS; PARENT; PEDIATRICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 78751646332     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3181e2a4cd     Document Type: Article

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