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General Rationing Issues
         

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
A WEEK-IN-REVIEW FEATURED REPORT
FULL-TEXT ARTICLE

Rationing Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV/AIDS in Africa: Choices and Consequences
Rosen S, Sanne I, Collier A, Simon JL

PLoS Med.
2005 Nov
Paper
 
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FULL-TEXT ARTICLE

Designing Equitable Antiretroviral Allocation Strategies in Resource-Constrained
Countries

Wilson DP, . Blower SM

PLOS Medicine Vol2 Issue 9 Sep 2005
Paper
 
Responsibility, fairness and rationing in health care.
Cappelen AW, Norheim OF.

Health Policy. 2005 Aug 17;
Abstract 

FULL-TEXT DOCUMENT
The Costs of Denying Scarcity
Alexander GC,Werner RM, Ubel PA

Arch Intern Med. 2004;164:593-596.
Paper

Rationing, randomising, and researching in health care provision
Edwards S . Kirchin S.  
J Med Ethics
2002;28:20-23
Abstract 

    Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters

 
Community attitudes towards rationing antiretroviral treatment in Kinshasa,
Democratic Republic of Congo: a qualitative study of justice and equity

S Rennie, A Nsitu, E .Birindwa, et al
(16IAC)
)
Abstract
 

Rationing antiretroviral therapy in Africa: efficiency, equity, and reality
S Rosen, J L Simon, A Collier, I M Sanne

(15IAC)

Abstract


Healthcare Providers' Role in Rationing
         

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Medicine, public health, and the ethics of rationing.
Tauber AI.
Perspect Biol Med
2002 Winter;45(1):16-30

Abstract
 

    Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters

  Rationing Survival: Doctors, Nurses, and Access to Anti-Retrovirals in South Africa
R Bayer, G Oppenheimer
(15IAC)
Abstract

Implicit Rationing
         

Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Explicit and implicit rationing: taking responsibility and avoiding blame for
health care choices.
Ham C, Coulter A.
J Health Serv Res Policy 2001 Jul;6(3):163-9
Abstract

Rationing by Lottery
         

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  FULL-TEXT PAPER
The Ethics of AIDS Care: Considerations in providing lifesaving and
life-extending drugs to the medically indigent in the United States
Harvey, JC
JIAPAC 1998 May

Paper

Rationing by Age
         

Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Rationing scarce life-sustaining resources on the basis of age.
Clarke CM.
J Adv Nurs 2001  Sep;35(5):799-804
Abstract
   
  Age-based rationing in the allocation of health care.
Dey I, Fraser N.
Abstract

Rationing by Need
         

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Ethics and geographical equity in health care.
Rice N, Smith PC.
J Med Ethics 2001  Aug;27(4):256-61
Abstract

Rationing by Geography
         

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries  

  FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Rationing in the NHS: audit of outcome and acceptance of restriction criteria
for minor operations.
O'Boyle CP, Cole RP.

BMJ 2001 Aug 25;323(7310):428-9

Paper

Rationing by Prioritization
         

Pregnant Women/ Newborns

      Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries  

 
Which Patients First? Setting Priorities for Antiretroviral Therapy Where
Resources Are Limited

McGough LJ, Reynolds SJ, Quinn TC,  Zenilman JM
Am J Public Health 2005;95 1173-1180
Abstract

Managing newborn health in the global community.
Foege W.
Am J Public Health
2001 Oct;91(10):1563-4
Abstract


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