Rationing medical care to the elderly revisited: futility as a just criterion

J Biblic Ethics Med. 1993 Summer;7(3):67-74.
No abstract available

MeSH terms

  • Age Factors
  • Aged*
  • Biomedical Technology*
  • Christianity*
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Economics
  • Empathy
  • Euthanasia, Passive*
  • Health Care Rationing*
  • Humans
  • Medical Futility*
  • Medicare
  • Moral Obligations
  • Mortality
  • Patient Care
  • Patient Selection*
  • Prejudice
  • Quality of Life
  • Renal Dialysis
  • Resource Allocation*
  • Resuscitation
  • Resuscitation Orders
  • Social Justice
  • Social Responsibility
  • Social Values
  • Statistics as Topic
  • Terminally Ill
  • Treatment Outcome
  • United States
  • Withholding Treatment