When is home care medically necessary?
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Biomedical subjects
N Daniels
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Duty to treat or right to refuse?
By entering the medical profession, physicians have consented to accept a standard level of risk of infection. In most instances, the risk of contracting HIV does not exceed this level.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
Cost-containment and strains of commitment.
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Cost Control↗
Determining "medical necessity" in mental health practice.
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Four unsolved rationing problems. A challenge.
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Democracy↗
Principles for national health care reform.
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Advisory Committees↗
Justice, fair procedures, and the goals of medicine.
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Health Services Accessibility↗
Last chance therapies and managed care. Pluralism, fair procedures, and legitimacy.
How can health plans make fair determinations about when "experimental" (and costly) treatments such as high dose chemotherapy with autologous bone marrow transplantation should be covered despite lack of clear clinical consensus about their benefits? Different models for managing "last chance" therapies evolving in some health plans offer promising examples of how issues of fairness and legitimacy in decision-making can be addressed.
Antineoplastic Agents↗