The global challenge of health care rationing /
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| Imprint: | Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia, PA : Open University Press, 2000. |
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| Description: | xii, 267 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | State of health series State of health series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8204624 |
| Summary: | Rationing or priority setting occurs in all health care systems. Doctors, managers and politicians are involved in making decisions on how to use scarce resources and which groups and patients should receive priority. These decisions may be informed by the results of medical research and cost effectiveness studies but they also involve the use of judgement and experience. Consequently, priority setting involves ethics as well as economics and decisions on who should live and who should die remain controversial and contested. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 267 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-264) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0335204643 9780335204649 0335204635 9780335204632 |
