Dying in 559 beds: Efficiency, 'best Buys', and the ethics of standardization in national health care
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 17 (1):59-77 (1992)
| Abstract | While a national health care system may be greeted with enthusiasm on many grounds, it poses substantial moral problems – not the least of which would be the clash between the ‘standardization’ of care for the sake of efficiency and the needs of individual patients. Such problems are best seen in the treatment of dying patients. Keywords: best buy, cost-saving, dying, efficiency, practice guidelines, Rilke, standards of practice, two tier CiteULike Connotea Del.icio.us What's this? | |||||||||
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