Why rationing was right for Oregon
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- Getting to grips with health care rationing. Molyneux, David // Pulse;3/17/2003, Vol. 63 Issue 11, p72
Identifies problems in health care rationing in Great Britain. Causes of rationing problems; Rationing solutions; Fair and ethical rationing.
- And more rationing. Spencer, Peter L. // Consumers' Research Magazine;Jun94, Vol. 77 Issue 6, p43
Looks at resource-rationing in health care. Pressure on care providers to discharge patients quicker and sicker; New `optimal recovery guidelines' from Blue Cross of Rhode Island.
- Quality-adjusted life years: Ethical implications and the Oregon plan. La Puma, John // Issues in Law & Medicine;Spring92, Vol. 7 Issue 4, p429
Discusses methods and the historical development of a quality-adjusted life year (QALY), a numerical description of the value that a medical procedure or service can be expected to provide to patients with similar medical conditions. Ethical issues; Method of rationing health care formally...
- Rationing. Veatch, Robert M. // National Forum;Summer93, Vol. 73 Issue 3, p22
Reports that it is increasingly likely that the emerging national health care rationing will include a basic coverage that will provide everyone who is insured with the same list of covered medical services. Encouragement of competition among health care providers; Purchase of supplemental...
- Vive la difference! Caines, Eric // New Statesman;08/15/97, Vol. 126 Issue 4347, p31
Focuses on inequality in health care rationing in Great Britain. Findings of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report `Death in Britain: how local mortality rates have changed from the 1950s to the 1990s'; Issue on decision making about the rationing of health care; Difficulty of striking a balance...
- Rationing. Friedman, Emily // Trustee;Mar95, Vol. 48 Issue 3, p12
Discusses the rationing of health care in the United States. Grounds for rationing; Rationing of health care on the basis of providers' choices and patients characteristics; Factors that can influence a patient's access to care; Changes in incentives; Providers' responsibility for allocating...
- Rationing: The debate we have to have. Smith, Richard // BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition);3/18/95, Vol. 310 Issue 6981, p686
States that Great Britain must find its own way of engaging the public in the debate on rationing of health care. Court cases on rationing; Subjects of debates which illustrates the different aspects of rationing.
- Dilemmas in rationing health care services: The case for implicit rationing. Mechanic, David // BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition);6/24/95, Vol. 310 Issue 6995, p1655
Examines the dilemmas in rationing health care services. Rationing through managed care; Changes in the rationing strategies; Strengths and weaknesses of implicit rationing; Arguments for and against explicit rationing; Building of a new culture of medical practice; Destabilizing effects of...
- Lessons for health care rationing from case of child B. Price, David // BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition);1/20/96, Vol. 312 Issue 7024, p167
Discusses the lessons for health care rationing from the case about a young leukaemia sufferer who had been refused a second transplant operation by Cambridge Health Authority. Example of explicit rationing in the National Health Service; Court's determination to view the case in utilitarian...
