Age as a basis for healthcare rationing: Arguments against agism

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 399-402

  Scharf, Simon ^a   Flamer, Harold ^a   Christophidis, Nicholas ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; DISABILITY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; JUSTICE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0030465791     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-199609060-00002     Document Type: Short Survey

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