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Comment
. 2012 Feb 22;16(1):304.
doi: 10.1186/cc11194.

New obstacles to improving the quality of end-of-life care in ICU

Maxim V Bocharov  1 , Jeremy M Kahn
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New obstacles to improving the quality of end-of-life care in ICU

Maxim V Bocharov et al. Crit Care. .
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