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An ethical framework for rationing health care.

open access: yesJournal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1992
This paper proposes an ethical framework for rationing publicly-financed health care. We begin by classifying alternative rationing criteria according to their ethical basis. We then examine the ethical arguments for four rationing criteria.
Nancy S. Jecker   +2 more
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Health care should be rationed

British Journal of Nursing, 1999
Rationing of health care, in its simplest form, is finite resource allocation within a context of infinite demand. It is a method of determining which services receive funding and which treatments can be afforded.
Cutcliffe, John R., Blatt, Barry
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The Ethics of Health Care Rationing: An Introduction

open access: yes, 2014
The rationing of health care is universal and inevitable, taking place in both poor and affluent countries, in publicly funded and private health care systems.
Greg Bognar, Iwao Hirose
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Rationing health care in France

Health Policy, 1999
Since the Plan Juppé (1995), many facets of the French health care system have been the target of new legislative measures. This paper discusses the main features of the financing and provision of health care services, and focuses on issues related to priority setting and rationing.
P J, Lancry, S, Sandier
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Rationing health care: an exploration

Health Policy, 1999
Rationing involves a failure to offer care, or the denial of care, from which patients would benefit. Rationing involves definition of efficiency (benefit) and equity (fairness) allocation criteria and a recognition of a trade-off between the two. However, accountability for rationing choices also requires careful governance of the agents of society ...
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Rationing Health Care

Southern Medical Journal, 1995
As the American health care system struggles to provide universal access to quality care at an acceptable price, many planners focus on rationing as the only way to make available the necessary resources. I discuss some of the ethical, economic, and political issues that relate to health care rationing.
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Can Health Care Rationing Ever Be Rational?

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2012
Mr. M. was a 77-year-old decisionally incapacitated long-term nursing home resident with chronic schizophrenia who was admitted to the hospital with a bacterial pneumonia. His past medical history was notable for deteriorating functional status over the past 2-3 years, urinary retention requiring chronic indwelling bladder catheterization, and two ...
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Managed mental health care: Will it be rationed care or rational care?

Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 1993
The increasing popularity and acceptance of managed mental health care has intensified people’s concern about the rationing of mental health services. The obvious worry is that the definition of what services will be available in a managed care benefit package will be minimal in extensiveness and intensiveness.
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Rationing in Health Care

Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 1998
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