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Healthcare rationing: constraints and equity
1Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW. milesl@blackburn.med.su.oz.au
Abstract:
It is no longer possible or ethically acceptable to deny that rationing occurs in medical practice. We ration already by using "contraindications to treatment". There are no rationing criteria that are universally ethically acceptable. We need ways to establish community preferences if we are to develop responsible methods of rationing healthcare services.
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