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Medical governance [[electronic resource] ] : values, expertise, and interests in organ transplantation / / David L. Weimer



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Autore: Weimer David Leo Visualizza persona
Titolo: Medical governance [[electronic resource] ] : values, expertise, and interests in organ transplantation / / David L. Weimer Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
Disciplina: 617.9/54
Soggetto topico: Procurement of organs, tissues, etc - United States
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - United States
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Medical governance : important but neglected -- Balancing values, expertise, and interests -- The organ procurement and transplantation network -- Expanding organ supply -- Liver allocation and the final rule -- Incremental response to racial disparity in kidney allocation -- The kidney allocation review : can the OPTN make nonincremental change? -- How and how well does the OPTN govern? -- Is the OPTN a viable and desirable model in other medical contexts?
Sommario/riassunto: Governments throughout the industrialized world make decisions that fundamentally affect the quality and accessibility of medical care. In the United States, despite the absence of universal health insurance, these decisions have great influence on the practice of medicine. In Medical Governance, David Weimer explores an alternative regulatory approach to medical care based on the delegation of decisions about the allocation of scarce medical resources to private nonprofit organizations. He investigates the specific development of rules for the U.S. organ transplant system and details the conv
Titolo autorizzato: Medical governance  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58901-682-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910459255003321
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Serie: American governance and public policy.