Can health plans be compassionate toward persons with spinal cord injury?

Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 82-94

  Banja, John ^a,b   Kilburn, Bettina B ^c  

^a Department of Rehabilitation Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Disability Research and Consulting LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Compassion; Ethics; Health insurance; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TAX;

EID: 37349007640     PISSN: 10820744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1310/sci1303-82     Document Type: Review

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