The Lancet, Volume 352, Issue 9136
, Page 1244, 17 October 1998
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)70485-2Cite or Link Using DOI
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Rationing of health care—how should it be done?
Health-care rationing—more euphemistically expressed as priority setting in health care—has become a common political theme in many countries. Even before the American and European approval of sildenafil (Viagra), the public had been confronted with the fact that the increasing availability of new treatments and modern technology will lead even well-funded health-care systems to the point when rationing becomes necessary. But who should do it and how should it be done?
The program organisers of t ...
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