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Approaches to suffering at the end of life: the use of sedation in the USA and Netherlands
- Correspondence to Judith Rietjens, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, PO Box 2040, Rotterdam 3000 CA, Netherlands; j.rietjens{at}erasmusmc.nl
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Approaches to suffering at the end of life: the use of sedation in the USA and Netherlands
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- Received February 13, 2012
- Revised July 30, 2012
- Accepted August 12, 2012
- First published September 14, 2012.
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April 27, 2016
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