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Withdrawing or withholding treatments in health care rationing: an interview study on ethical views and implications

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background When rationing health care, a commonly held view among ethicists is that there is no ethical difference between withdrawing or withholding medical treatments.
Liam Strand, Lars Sandman, Gustav Tinghög, Ann-Charlotte Nedlund   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inverse Vulcanization Through Epoxide Chemistry: A Low Temperature Non‐Olefin Route to Sulfur‐Rich Polymer Networks

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Epoxide monomers undergo base‐catalyzed ring‐opening copolymerization with elemental sulfur to afford sulfur‐rich polymers under mild conditions. The resulting materials exhibit excellent mechanical performance, strong adhesion (up to 10 MPa on stainless steel), and outstanding reprocessability.
Pan Yang, Youfu Wang, Xinyuan Zhu, Jinhong Jia, Xiaofeng Wu, Tom Hasell   +5 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Rationing for medicines by health care providers in Indonesia National Health Insurance System at hospital setting: a qualitative study

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2019
Background Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Indonesia is planned to be fully implemented in 2019 through the National Health Insurance (NHI) launched in January 2014.
Endang Yuniarti, Yayi Suryo Prabandari, Erna Kristin, Sri Suryawati   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ethical Issues in COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]

Hospital Practices and Research, 2020
The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 disease (COVID-19) is the most current life-threating disease that affect health and economic sectors in the world. This pandemic raises weighty and urgent ethical issues that affected patients, health care provider and health ...
Mohsen Saberi Isfeedvajani, Foroozan Fares, Zahra Ismaili Shahroudi Moqaddam   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Prospective Determination of the Incidence of Perceived Inappropriate Care in Critically Ill Patients

Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2014
BACKGROUND: Health care providers’ perceptions regarding appropriateness in end-of-life treatments have been widely studied. While nurses and physicians believe that rationing and other cost-related practices sometimes occur in the intensive care unit ...
Rohit K Singal, Robert Sibbald, Brenda Morgan, Mel Quinlan, Neil Parry, Michael Radford, Claudio M Martin   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Relationship Between Preoperative Oxford Hip and Knee Score and Change in Health-Related Quality of Life After Total Hip and Total Knee Arthroplasty: Can It Help Inform Rationing Decisions?

Arthroplasty Today, 2020
Background: In countries with publicly funded health care, there is an increasing need for explicit rationing for total joint arthroplasty (TJA). The Oxford Hip and Knee Scores (OHS/OKS) have been used to set access thresholds for TJA despite not being ...
David P. Gwynne-Jones, MA, BM, BCh, FRCS, FRACS (Orth), Trudy Sullivan, PhD, Ross Wilson, PhD, J. Haxby Abbott, PhD, FNZCP   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

COVID-19: instruments for the allocation of mechanical ventilators—a narrative review

Critical Care, 2020
After the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic, the elaboration of comprehensive and preventive public policies became important in order to stop the spread of the disease.
Marcelo José dos Santos, Maristela Santini Martins, Fabiana Lopes Pereira Santana, Maria Carolina Silvano Pacheco Corrêa Furtado, Fabiana Cristina Bazana Remédio Miname, Rafael Rodrigo da Silva Pimentel, Ágata Nunes Brito, Patrick Schneider, Edson Silva dos Santos, Luciane Hupalo da Silva   +9 more
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Priorities Towards Fair Allocation of Ventilators During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Delphi Study

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
BackgroundCOVID-19 pandemic has resulted in severe shortage in vital resources, including invasive mechanical ventilators. The current imbalance between demand and supply of mechanical ventilators has called for investigations on the fair allocation of ...
Seyyed-Hadi Ghamari, Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari, Nasim Zamani, Hossein Hassanian-Moghaddam, Ali-Asghar Kolahi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A comparison between raw and predicted mortality in a paediatric intensive care unit in South Africa

BMC Research Notes, 2018
Objective Paediatric intensive care resources are limited in sub-Saharan Africa. The mortality rate in a combined Paediatric/Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Johannesburg, South Africa was almost double that in a dedicated paediatric intensive care unit ...
Daynia Elizabeth Ballot, Tanusha Ramdin, Debbie Ann White, Jeffrey Lipman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Development and Pilot Clinical Study of CD147 Targeted Antagonistic Peptide Probe for Tumor Imaging

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study establishes [68Ga]Ga‐DOTA‐AP9 as a first‐in‐human CD147‐targeted PET tracer with favorable safety and specific tumor uptake. Tracer accumulation correlates with CD147 expression in patients, enabling noninvasive quantification of CD147‐positive malignancies.
Xiaokun Ma, Rui Guo, Dongfeng Niu, Yufei Song, Zhenyao Zhang, Xiangxi Meng, Lili Mao, Haifeng Huang, Hua Zhu, Zhi Yang, Teli Liu   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source