Disaster preparedness and triage: Justice and common good

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 236-241

  Veatch, Robert M ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equity; Justice; Kidney allocation; Liver allocation; Transplantation; Triage efficiency; Utilitarianism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CONFLICT; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; JUSTICE; KIDNEY GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TISSUE TYPING; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

DISASTERS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ETHICAL THEORY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MORALS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TRANSPLANTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 22944466426     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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