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. 1996 Dec;9(6):403-5.
doi: 10.2165/00002512-199609060-00003.

Age as a basis for healthcare rationing. Support for agist policies

A B Shaw  1
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Age as a basis for healthcare rationing. Support for agist policies

A B Shaw. Drugs Aging. 1996 Dec.

Abstract

It is inevitable that publicly funded, technically sophisticated medical treatments will be increasingly rationed. Other things being equal, there is a greater duty to use them to prolong the lives of younger than older people. Age is therefore an ethical rationing criterion. Denial of this may actually harm older people.

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