Waiting for radiotherapy: A national call for ethical discourse on waiting lists in radiotherapy: Findings from a preliminary survey

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 9-19

  Schäfer, Christof ^a   Nelson, Kristin ^b   Herbst, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Allocation; Ethics; Justice; Radiotherapy; Resource distribution; Treatment time; Waiting list; Waiting time

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FORECASTING; GERMANY; HUMANS; MORALS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; RESEARCH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TIME FACTORS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 12944297725     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-005-1252-7     Document Type: Review

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