Palliative care in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Goals of care discussions and beyond.

Muscle Nerve

Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

Published: June 2022

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