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Withdrawing or Withholding Treatments in Health Care Rationing: An Interview Study on Ethical Views and Implications

2022-04-18

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<h4>Background: </h4> When rationing health care, a commonly held view among ethicists is that there is no ethical difference between withdrawing or withholding medical treatments. In reality, this view does not generally seem to be supported by practicians nor in legislation practices, by for example adding a ‘grandfather clause’ when rejecting a new treatment for lacking cost-effectiveness. Due to this discrepan...

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Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

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Literature Corpus work: 15f66903-59e4-56c3-92be-1819d74252be
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1549616/v1

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