Distinction between good palliative care and intending death

Affiliations

¹ Tennessee Valley Veteran's Affairs Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (VA GRECC), Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA. wes.ely@vumc.org.
² Tennessee Valley Veteran's Affairs Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (VA GRECC), Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.

Comment

E Wesley Ely et al. Intensive Care Med. 2020 Jan.

. 2020 Jan;46(1):147-148.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-019-05827-3. Epub 2019 Oct 28.

¹ Tennessee Valley Veteran's Affairs Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (VA GRECC), Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA. wes.ely@vumc.org.
² Tennessee Valley Veteran's Affairs Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (VA GRECC), Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interests.

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