Efficiency and health

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 181-190

  Hussey, Trevor ^a  

^a Buckinghamshire College   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

efficiency; health care; health economics; value judgements

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ETHICAL THEORY; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHILOSOPHY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERSONS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL VALUES; STATE MEDICINE; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0031134993     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096973309700400302     Document Type: Article

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