Ethics of allocating intensive care unit resources

New Horizons: Science and Practice of Acute Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 38-50

  Lanken, P N ^a   Terry, P B ^a   Osborne, M L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

allocation; cost containment; dialysis; egalitarian; ethics; fairn ess; intensive care; justice; Medicaid; Medicare; race; rationing; scarcity; society; triage

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL ETHICS; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

COST CONTROL; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISMS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL VALUES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031043736     PISSN: 10637389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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