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Extending life for people with a terminal illness: a moral right and an expensive death? Exploring societal perspectives

BACKGROUND: Many publicly-funded health systems apply cost-benefit frameworks in response to the moral dilemma of how best to allocate scarce healthcare resources. However, implementation of recommendations based on costs and benefit calculations and subsequent challenges have led to ‘special cases’...

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Autores principales: McHugh, Neil, Baker, Rachel M, Mason, Helen, Williamson, Laura, van Exel, Job, Deogaonkar, Rohan, Collins, Marissa, Donaldson, Cam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4357067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25885447
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12910-015-0008-x