The 'Rule of Rescue' in Medical Priority Setting: Ethical Plausibilities and Implausibilities
Not infrequently, the so-called Rule of Rescue gets invoked as an allegedly self-evident constraint to the CBE-goal of maximizing health benefit with a given health budget. In this paper this constraint is critically analyzed. It will be argued that some of its implications are worth considering - but not the inherently vague Rule as such.
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2009
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Authors: | Schoene-Seifert, Bettina |
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Rationality, Markets and Morals. - Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, ISSN 1869-778X. - 2009, 11, 29
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Frankfurt School of Finance and Management |
Subject: | health care | health ethics | prioritization |
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