Age-based rationing of health care.

dc.contributor.author Blanchette, P L
dc.date.accessioned 2019-07-02T15:59:36Z
dc.date.available 2019-07-02T15:59:36Z
dc.date.issued 1995-04
dc.description.abstract The U.S. has focused attention on the rising costs of health care coincident with the increasing age of the population. Arguments have been made to overtly ration care to older persons; however, general acceptance of the need to ration scarce resources, whether or not such a policy is actually formalized, can lead to covert rationing. Some overt rationing has already occurred, some of the data put forth to justify that rationing needs to be challenged, and ethical principles need to be applied to provide appropriate and perhaps less costly care.
dc.identifier.issn 0017-8594
dc.identifier.pubmed 7601678
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10524/62455
dc.language.iso eng
dc.subject.mesh Age Factors
dc.subject.mesh Aged
dc.subject.mesh Aged, 80 and over
dc.subject.mesh Aging
dc.subject.mesh Critical Care/economics
dc.subject.mesh Decision Making
dc.subject.mesh Freedom
dc.subject.mesh Health Care Costs
dc.subject.mesh Health Care Rationing
dc.subject.mesh Health Policy
dc.subject.mesh Humans
dc.subject.mesh Medical Futility
dc.subject.mesh United States
dc.title Age-based rationing of health care.
dc.type Journal Article
dc.type.dcmi Text
prism.number 4
prism.pagerange 507-9
prism.publicationname Hawaii medical journal
prism.volume 54
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