The moral problems with time-limited trials at the end-of-life, especially when clinicians and patients have different goals

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Thomas M Donaldson. Intensive Care Med. 2022 Sep.

. 2022 Sep;48(9):1262-1263.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-022-06831-w. Epub 2022 Aug 1.

¹ School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. tmd28@doctors.org.uk.

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