Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 577-588 , December 2006

Limiting and rationing treatment in Paediatric & neonatal intensive care

  • Peter-Marc Fortune, BM BSc MA PhD FRCPCH (Clinical Director of Critical Care)

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PII: S1521-6896(06)00054-1

doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2006.09.004

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 577-588 , December 2006

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