Health Care Rationing - Ethics
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Restarting the clock...again: ethical considerations in retransplantation.

30 Aug 2009 Cardiac and pulmonary transplantation has revolutionized end-stage heart and lung therapy. With the advent of cyclosporine and other immunosuppressive therapies, many patients lead productive lives. Unfortunately, other patients who have undergone ... Read more...

Bioethics & human rights: access to health-related goods.

30 Aug 2009 There are many good reasons for a merger between bioethics and human rights. First, though, significant philosophical groundwork must be done to clarify what a human right to health would be and--if we accept that it exists--exactly how it might ... Read more...

Women and children first: transforming a historic defining moment into a contemporary ethical imperative.

26 Aug 2009 "Women and children first" is a familiar phrase and comes down to us from the heroic sacrifice of their lives by British soldiers on the HMS Birkenhead in 1852. "Women and children first," the New York Declaration of the International Academy of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Care Rationing - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Women and children first-or last? The New York Declaration. 29 Sep 2009
• Health economics: Life in the balance. 15 Sep 2009
• [Using intensive medicine in progressive cases?] 14 Sep 2009
• Restarting the clock...again: ethical considerations in retransplantation. 30 Aug 2009
• Bioethics & human rights: access to health-related goods. 30 Aug 2009
• In this issue... 30 Aug 2009
• Women and children first: transforming a historic defining moment into a contemporary ethical imperative. 26 Aug 2009
• Poverty, wealth, and access to pandemic influenza vaccines. 10 Aug 2009
• Allocating resources during pandemic addressed in annual ethics lecture. 29 Jun 2009
• Ethical issues and the allocation of scarce resources during a public health emergency. 14 Jun 2009
• Ethical issues and the allocation of scarce resources during a public health emergency. 14 Jun 2009
• Ethical issues and the allocation of scarce resources during a public health emergency. 14 Jun 2009
• Ethical issues and the allocation of scarce resources during a public health emergency. 14 Jun 2009
• Ethical issues and the allocation of scarce resources during a public health emergency. 14 Jun 2009
• [Extent and impact of bed rationing in German hospitals: results of a representative survey among physicians] 2 Jun 2009
• Whence tendance? Accepting the responsibility of care for the chronic pain patient. 29 Apr 2009
• Qualified ethics nod to doctors downing tools. 29 Apr 2009
• Ethical criteria for allocating health-care resources. 23 Apr 2009
• Ethical criteria for allocating health-care resources. 23 Apr 2009
• Just compassion: implications for the ethics of the scarcity paradigm in clinical healthcare provision. 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Health Care Rationing'

Definition: Planning for the equitable allocation, apportionment, or distribution of available health resources.

Descriptor UI: D015276

Alternative terms: Health Care Rationing; Rationing, Health Care; Healthcare Rationing; Rationing, Healthcare;

Related Mesh Headings: Patient Selection;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; methods;

Tree Number: I01.261.750.500; N03.349.270; N05.300.430.375;

History Note: 89