Rationing at the bedside: Immoral or unavoidable?

Clinical Ethics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 112-121

  Magelssen, Morten ^a   Nortvedt, Per ^a   Solbakk, Jan Helge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Clinical ethics; Priority setting; Professional ethics; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014459804     PISSN: 14777509     EISSN: 1758101X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1477750916657664     Document Type: Article

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