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Things we would never do regarding end‑of‑life care in the ICU

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  1. Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Route de Lennik 808, 1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean-Louis Vincent, Jacques Creteur & Fabio Silvio Taccone

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Vincent, JL., Creteur, J. & Taccone, F.S. Things we would never do regarding end‑of‑life care in the ICU. Intensive Care Med 46, 145–146 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05816-6

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