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Understanding patient-centredness: contrasting expert versus patient perspectives on vasopressor therapy for shock

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  1. University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

    Francois Lamontagne

  2. Hatley, QC, Canada

    Dian Cohen

  3. Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Margaret Herridge

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Lamontagne, F., Cohen, D. & Herridge, M. Understanding patient-centredness: contrasting expert versus patient perspectives on vasopressor therapy for shock. Intensive Care Med 43, 1052–1054 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4518-x

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