The Health Care Resource Allocation Debate: Defining Our Terms

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 266, Issue 23, 1991, Pages 3328-3331

  Hadorn, David C ^a   Brook, Robert H ^a,b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DISADVANTAGED; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCARCITY; STANDARDS; UNITED STATES;

COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; INSURANCE, HEALTH; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; UNITED STATES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0026321479     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1991.03470230086035     Document Type: Article

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