Anesthesiologists and the quality of death.

Anesth Analg

From the *Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Englewood Hospital & Medical Center, Englewood, New Jersey; †Departments of Anesthesiology, Medicine, and Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; ‡Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York; and §Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

Published: April 2014

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