LEADER 03138oam 2200541I 450 001 9910155000303321 005 20230808200621.0 010 $a1-351-89506-0 010 $a1-315-24144-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315241449 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965291 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758092 035 $a(OCoLC)973026313 035 $a(BIP)63369072 035 $a(BIP)47514848 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965291 100 $a20180706e20161998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe allocation of health care resources $ean ethical evaluation of the 'QALY' approach /$fJohn McKie. [et al.] 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (162 pages) $cillustrations, tables 225 1 $aMedico-Legal Series 300 $aFirst published 1998 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a1-85521-953-0 311 08$a1-351-89507-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. The background to the QALY -- 3. Age discrimination -- 4. Quality of life -- 5. Double jeopardy -- 6. Public opinion -- 7. Conclusion. 330 $aThe competition for limited health care resources is intensifying. We urgently need an acceptable method for deciding how they should be allocated. But the goods that health care produces are of very different kinds. Health care can extend the lives of children and of older people. It can make it possible for a person to walk, when without health care that person would be permanently bedridden; and it can reduce the pain and distress of people who are terminally ill. How can we possibly decide which of these - and many more - diverse achievements of health care are more deserving than others? We need a common unit by which we might be able to measure these very different goods. The Quality-Adjusted Life Year, or QALY, is the most developed proposal for such a unit of measure. In this book a distinguished team of ethicists and economists defend the core of the QALY proposal: that health care resources should be used so as to produce more years of life, of the highest possible quality. This leads to a discussion of such fundamental questions as whether all lives are of equal value, whether health care should be allocated on the basis of need and whether the QALY approach incorporates an adequate account of fairness or justice. The result is the most thorough account yet of the ethical issues raised by the use of the QALY as a basis for allocating health care resources. 410 0$aMedico-legal series. 606 $aHealth care rationing 606 $aQuality of life 606 $aLife expectancy 615 0$aHealth care rationing. 615 0$aQuality of life. 615 0$aLife expectancy. 676 $a362.1 700 $aMcKie$b John$f1954-,$0975516 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155000303321 996 $aThe allocation of health care resources$92221314 997 $aUNINA