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| Age as a criterion for rationing health care | | Author(s) | Norman G Levinsky |
| Journal title | The New England Journal of Medicine, vol 322, no 25, 21 June 1990 |
| Pages | pp 1813-1815 |
| Keywords | Health services ; Grant allocation ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The author examines proposals to use age as a criterion for allocating resources in medical care, in the event of explicit rationing being introduced in the US. His view is that resources should be allocated according to the probability that a patient will benefit, rather than his or her age. Any economic benefit in the form of savings is likely to be small if intensive, high-technology care is eliminated. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980108239 A |
| Classmark | L: QCG: TOB: 7T * |
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