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01-02-2017 | What's New in Intensive Care

How to respond to an ICU patient asking if she/he is going to die

Authors: Margaret Isaac, J. Randall Curtis

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 2/2017

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“Doctor, am I going to die?”

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Title: How to respond to an ICU patient asking if she/he is going to die
Authors: Margaret Isaac
J. Randall Curtis
Publication date: 01-02-2017
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 2/2017
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4533-y

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