The Allocation of Health Care Resources An Ethical Evaluation of the 'QALY' Approach |
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Author:
| McKie, John Singer, Peter Richardson, Jeff |
Series title: | Medico-Legal Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-85521-953-3 |
Publication Date: | May 1998 |
Publisher: | Routledge
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $175.00 |
Book Description:
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The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying. We urgently need an acceptable method for deciding how they should be allocated. The Quality-Adjusted Life Year, or QALY, is the most developed proposal for such allocation. In this book a distinguished team of ethicists and economists defend the core of the QALY proposal: that health care resources should be used so as to produce more years of life, of the highest possible quality. The result is the most thorough...
More DescriptionThe competition for limited health care resources is intensifying. We urgently need an acceptable method for deciding how they should be allocated. The Quality-Adjusted Life Year, or QALY, is the most developed proposal for such allocation. In this book a distinguished team of ethicists and economists defend the core of the QALY proposal: that health care resources should be used so as to produce more years of life, of the highest possible quality. The result is the most thorough account yet of the ethical issues raised by the use of the QALY as a basis for allocating health care resources.