Health Care Rationing - Organization & administration
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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...

Exploring the social value of health-care interventions: a stated preference discrete choice experiment.

30 Jul 2009 Much of the literature on distributive preferences covers specific considerations in isolation, and recent reviews have suggested that research is required to inform on the relative importance of various key considerations. Responding to this ... Read more...

The acute myocardial infarction with ST segment elevation Udine registry (Come-to-Udine): predictors of 3 years mortality.

30 May 2009 Background: Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is considered the best treatment for acute myocardial infarction with ST segment elevation (STEMI), but it is difficult to deliver. Objectives: To report on long-term mortality predictors in a ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Care Rationing - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Restarting the clock...again: ethical considerations in retransplantation. 30 Aug 2009
• Overhead or opportunity? 30 Aug 2009
• The chasm between is and ought. 19 Aug 2009
• What' care rationing and what are its effects? 30 Jul 2009
• Exploring the social value of health-care interventions: a stated preference discrete choice experiment. 30 Jul 2009
• NICE wobbles. 30 May 2009
• The acute myocardial infarction with ST segment elevation Udine registry (Come-to-Udine): predictors of 3 years mortality. 30 May 2009
• The payoff time: a flexible framework to help clinicians decide when patients with comorbid disease are not likely to benefit from practice guidelines. 30 May 2009
• Comorbidities, frailty, and "pay-off time". 30 May 2009
• Ethical criteria for allocating health-care resources. 23 Apr 2009
• Ethical criteria for allocating health-care resources. 23 Apr 2009
• [Admission of elderly persons to intensive care, professionals wish for real recommendations. Interview by Aurelie Haroche] 27 Feb 2009
• "Will new regulations reverse the 'drop' in homeopathy": a response from the faculty of homeopathy. 27 Feb 2009
• In support of the overuse of sustainability. 24 Feb 2009
• [Cost-utility analysis as a mechanism for allocation of health care resources: a review of the debate] 30 Jan 2009
• Searching for cost effectiveness thresholds in the NHS. 22 Jan 2009
• Resource allocation--it's a jungle out there. 12 Jan 2009
• Making the public mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse system more accessible: an invitation to recovery. 30 Dec 2008
• [The TISS-28 scoring system for assessment of cardiac surgical postoperative intensive care.] 30 Dec 2008
• The real test of society is how it deals with dying people. 30 Dec 2008

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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