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¹Divisions of Critical Care and Palliative Care (Downar), Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre and Department of Psychiatry (Bailey), Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta.; Division of Palliative Care (Kagan), Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.

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|July 9, 2014

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