Placing Value on End-of-Life Care-Is It Time for a New Taxonomy?

May Hua¹, Hannah Wunsch^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, New York, New York.
² Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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May Hua et al. JAMA Netw Open. 2019.

. 2019 Nov 1;2(11):e1914466.

doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.14466.

May Hua¹, Hannah Wunsch^{2

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¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, New York, New York.
² Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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