Health-care rationing: Critical features, ordinary language, and meaning

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 82-87

  Russell, Barbara J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESEARCH ETHICS; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; WELLBEING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLASSIFICATION; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; PUBLIC OPINION; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; PUBLIC OPINION; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL VALUES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036519017     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2002.tb00723.x     Document Type: Review

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