Cost-effectiveness analysis: is it ethical?
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Cost-effectiveness analysis: is it ethical?
Many clinicians believe that allowing costs to influence clinical decisions is unethical. They are mistaken in this belief, because it cannot be ethical to ignore the adverse consequences upon others of the decisions you make, which is what 'costs' represent. There are, however, some important ethical issues in deciding what costs to count, and how to count them. But these dilemmas are equally ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.18.1.7