Cancer care, money, and the value of life: Whose justice? Which rationality?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 217-222

  Sulmasy, Daniel P ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL MANHATTAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FUNGICEPTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; ONCOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; NEOPLASM; PATIENT ADVOCACY; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

COST CONTROL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 33846976143     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.08.0481     Document Type: Review

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