Ethnicity and "aggressive" end-of-life care

Affiliations

¹ Usher Institute (Sheikh), The University of Edinburgh; General practice locum (Dhami), Edinburgh, UK aziz.sheikh@ed.ac.uk.
² Usher Institute (Sheikh), The University of Edinburgh; General practice locum (Dhami), Edinburgh, UK.

Comment

Aziz Sheikh et al. CMAJ. 2020.

. 2020 Mar 16;192(11):E287-E288.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.200201.

¹ Usher Institute (Sheikh), The University of Edinburgh; General practice locum (Dhami), Edinburgh, UK aziz.sheikh@ed.ac.uk.
² Usher Institute (Sheikh), The University of Edinburgh; General practice locum (Dhami), Edinburgh, UK.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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