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Pricing life : why it's time for health care rationing / Peter A. Ubel.

By: Ubel, Peter A.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Basic bioethics. Publisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2000General Notes: "A Bradford book.".Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: xix, 208 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0262210169 (hc. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Health care rationing | Medical care -- Cost effectivenessDDC classification: 362.1
Contents:
Cost-effectiveness and the controversial necessity of health care rationing. Rationing according to cost-effectiveness: explicit, quantifiable, and unacceptable? ; The politics of defining health care rationing ; The necessity of rationing health care ; The challenge of measuring community values in ways appropriate for making rationing decisions ; How do people want to ration health care? Balancing cost-effectiveness and fairness -- Cost-effectiveness and bedside rationing: do two wrongs make a right?. The case against bedside rationing ; Recognizing bedside rationing ; Linguistic confusion about bedside rationing ; The unbearable rightness of bedside rationing -- The future of cost-effectiveness analysis and health care rationing. Future possibilities for improving how cost-effectiveness analysis incorporates public rationing preferences ; The future of cost-effectiveness analysis and health care rationing.
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"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cost-effectiveness and the controversial necessity of health care rationing. Rationing according to cost-effectiveness: explicit, quantifiable, and unacceptable? ; The politics of defining health care rationing ; The necessity of rationing health care ; The challenge of measuring community values in ways appropriate for making rationing decisions ; How do people want to ration health care? Balancing cost-effectiveness and fairness -- Cost-effectiveness and bedside rationing: do two wrongs make a right?. The case against bedside rationing ; Recognizing bedside rationing ; Linguistic confusion about bedside rationing ; The unbearable rightness of bedside rationing -- The future of cost-effectiveness analysis and health care rationing. Future possibilities for improving how cost-effectiveness analysis incorporates public rationing preferences ; The future of cost-effectiveness analysis and health care rationing.

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