Factors associated with the withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies in patients with severe traumatic brain injury: a multicenter cohort study.

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Published in Neurocrit Care on February 01, 2013

Authors

Nicolas Côte1, Alexis F Turgeon, François Lauzier, Lynne Moore, Damon C Scales, Francis Bernard, Ryan Zarychanski, Karen E A Burns, Maureen O Meade, David Zygun, Jean-François Simard, Amélie Boutin, Jacques G Brochu, Dean A Fergusson

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada.

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