• Med. J. Aust. · Aug 1990

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    Withdrawing and withholding treatment in intensive care. Part 1. Social and ethical dimensions.

    • M M Fisher and R F Raper.
    • Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW.
    • Med. J. Aust. 1990 Aug 20;153(4):217-20.

    AbstractIntensive care is an expensive resource. The medical profession has been criticised for applying technology indiscriminately and at vast expense to a relatively small group of patients. The desire of governments to reduce the cost of health care has made rationing of health services a topic of open discussion rather than an implicit activity as it has been in the past. The appropriate response of doctors to these problems is to provide leadership in promoting public awareness and debate of the effects of rationing, and to provide rational allocation of therapy to individual patients. The major issues involving resource allocation in society and to individuals are discussed.

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