Priority setting in health care: On the relation between reasonable choices on the micro-level and the macro-level

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 87-102

  Bærøe, Kristine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Clinical guidelines; Collective deliberation; Equality; Framework; Health care need; Horizontal equity; Judgment; Priority setting; Reasonableness; Vertical equity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT RIGHT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE;

DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; NORWAY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 48549093709     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-008-9063-3     Document Type: Article

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