Caring for patients with disorders of consciousness: Highlights from the perspectives of healthcare professionals on communication and end-of-life decision making
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Acknowledgements: The material in this paper features highlights of a detailed presentation of our data, currently in preparation. We would like to thank members of the Neuroethics Research Unit for early feedback on a previous version of this paper as well as members of the tri-lateral neuroethics initiative and participants to the first annual meeting of this trilateral group. This work is supported by grants from the CIHR (Tri-lateral neuroethics initiative; New Investigator Award), and the FRSQ (Eric Racine).
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تاریخ انتشار 2011