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Some medical services centres have instituted policy banning the practice.{{sfn|Braddock|1998|loc=What about "slow codes"?}}
In 1987, [[New York (state)|New York]] became the first [[U.S. state|state]] in the [[United States]] to effectively end the practice by enacting legislation to require medical staff to honour a patient's refusal of cardiopulmonary resuscitation or a do not resuscitate order, and to grant civil and criminal immunity to those who do so or those who perform CPR without knowledge of the order.{{sfn|New York Times|1987}}
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