Refusal of brain death diagnosis.

JONAS Healthc Law Ethics Regul

Department of Clinical Ethics, Fletcher Allen Health Care, and College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.

Published: October 2007

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