Benefit in liver transplantation: a survey among medical staff, patients, medical students and non-medical university staff and students
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Benefit in liver transplantation: a survey among medical staff, patients, medical students and non-medical university staff and students
BACKGROUND The allocation of any scarce health care resource, especially a lifesaving resource, can create profound ethical and legal challenges. Liver transplant allocation currently is based upon urgency, a sickest-first approach, and does not utilize capacity to benefit. While urgency can be described reasonably well with the MELD system, benefit encompasses multiple dimensions of patients' ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medical Ethics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1472-6939
DOI: 10.1186/s12910-018-0248-7