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Ethics in the Outpatient Setting: New Challenges and Opportunities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Ernlé W.D. Young
Ernlé W.D. Young
Affiliation:
Co-Director of the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics, and Clinical Professor of Ethics in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Extract

It is not the outpatient setting, per se, that is presenting new challenges and opportunities to ethics consultants and ethics committees. Rather, it is the underlying reason for shifting more and more patient care from the inpatient to the outpatient setting-namely, calculations of cost-effectiveness.

Type
Special Section: Healthcare Ethics Committees and Consultants: The State of the Art
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , Summer 1997 , pp. 293 - 298
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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