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. 2020 Apr 14;192(15):E400-E404.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.200465. Epub 2020 Mar 31.

Pandemic palliative care: beyond ventilators and saving lives

Amit Arya  1 , Sandy Buchman  1 , Bruno Gagnon  1 , James Downar  2
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Review

Pandemic palliative care: beyond ventilators and saving lives

Amit Arya et al. CMAJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Sandy Buchman is the president and a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Medical Association. He has received speaker fees from the University of Toronto and Cancer Care Ontario, and nonfinancial support from the Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research. James Downar has received consultant fees from Joule and honoraria from Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada). Amit Arya has received honoraria from Pallium Canada for peer review activities for LEAP course materials. No other competing interests were declared.

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