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Ernst R. Schwarz, Kiran J. Philip, Sinan A. Simsir, Lawrence Czer, Alfredo Trento, Stuart G. Finder, Laurent A. Cleenewerck, “Maximal care considerations when treating patients with end-stage heart failure: ethical and procedural quandaries in management of the very sick,” Journal of Religion and Health 50, no. 4 (2011): 872–879. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-010-9326-y.