Allocating Healthcare By QALYs: The Relevance of Age
What proportion of available healthcare funds should be allocated to hip replacement operations and what proportion to psychiatric care? What proportion should go to cardiac patients and what to newborns in intensive care? What proportion should go to preventative medicine and what to treating exist...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1996
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 1996, Volume: 5, Issue: 4, Pages: 534-545 |
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Summary: | What proportion of available healthcare funds should be allocated to hip replacement operations and what proportion to psychiatric care? What proportion should go to cardiac patients and what to newborns in intensive care? What proportion should go to preventative medicine and what to treating existing conditions? In general, how should limited healthcare resources (people, facilities, equipment, drugs…) be distributed If not all demands can be met? |
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ISSN: | 1469-2147 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S096318010000743X |