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  1. Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Columbia University College of Physician and Surgeons, 3959 Broadway, CHN 10-24, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    Jeffrey D. Edwards

  2. Critical Care Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA

    Louis P. Voigt & Judith E. Nelson

  3. Palliative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA

    Judith E. Nelson

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Edwards, J.D., Voigt, L.P. & Nelson, J.E. Ten key points about ICU palliative care. Intensive Care Med 43, 83–85 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4481-6

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