Health Care Rationing
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

An observational cohort study of triage for critical care provision during pandemic influenza: 'clipboard physicians' or 'evidenced based medicine'?

30 Oct 2009 We assessed the impact of a United Kingdom government-recommended triage process, designed to guide the decision to admit patients to intensive care during an influenza pandemic, on patients in a teaching hospital intensive care unit. We found that ... Read more...

Who should be delisted from urgent heart transplantation in Germany?

30 Aug 2009 When German heart transplant candidates receive a ventricular assist device (VAD), the indication for Eurotransplant urgency listing is no longer given unless assist device complications occur. We studied survival rates in these patients and ... Read more...

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...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Care Rationing'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• An observational cohort study of triage for critical care provision during pandemic influenza: 'clipboard physicians' or 'evidenced based medicine'? 30 Oct 2009
• Congratulations to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons for standing on principle. 29 Sep 2009
• Building nonhospital-based platforms for ambulatory orthognathic surgery: facility, anesthesia, and price considerations. 29 Sep 2009
• 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
• Physicians' beliefs and U.S. health care reform--a national survey. 12 Sep 2009
• British lessons on health care reform. 7 Sep 2009
• Who should be delisted from urgent heart transplantation in Germany? 30 Aug 2009
• Restarting the clock...again: ethical considerations in retransplantation. 30 Aug 2009
• Bioethics & human rights: access to health-related goods. 30 Aug 2009
• Misgivings. 30 Aug 2009
• Overhead or opportunity? 30 Aug 2009
• Universal prophylaxis, targeted prophylaxis, and/or preemptive therapy for opportunistic infections at the time of initiation of combination antiretroviral therapy for patients with advanced HIV Infection. 30 Aug 2009
• Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension and equity of donor lung allocation in the era of the lung allocation score: are we there yet? 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
• The chasm between is and ought. 19 Aug 2009
• A framework to measure the value of public health services. 12 Aug 2009
• Poverty, wealth, and access to pandemic influenza vaccines. 10 Aug 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