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Chapter 28: End of life care

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Research Explanation

E: Clinical experience
P: Patient
C: Context
R1 (a): Systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
R1 (b): Individual RCTs with narrow confidence limits
R2 (a): Systematic reviews of cohort studies
R2 (b): Individual cohort studies and low quality RCTs
R3 (a): Systematic reviews of case‐controlled studies
R3 (b): Case‐controlled studies
R4: Case series and poor quality cohort and case‐controlled studies
R5: Expert opinion

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