Clinical actions and financial constraints: The limits to rationing intensive care

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 729-746

  Lapsley, Irvine ^a   Melia, Kath ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Financial constraints; Intensive care; Medical professionals; Networks; Types of rationing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035457780     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.00273     Document Type: Article

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