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- Title
Understanding resource use in liver transplantation.
- Authors
Russell, Paul S.; Russell, P S
- Abstract
Editorial. Considers how concern regarding the mounting expense of health care has prompted special attention to expensive treatments and those devoted to the care of relatively few patients. How liver transplantation exemplifies both of these characteristics; Reference to study in the same issue by Showstack and colleagues, which analyzes variables that contribute to the high cost of liver transplantation; The issue of organ shortage.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LIVER transplantation; TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.; MEDICAL economics; ORGAN donation; COST; ECONOMICS; HEALTH care rationing; MEDICAL care use; RESOURCE allocation; PATIENT selection
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1999, Vol 281, Issue 15, p1431
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
editorial
- DOI
10.1001/jama.281.15.1431