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Research Article| Volume 2, ISSUE 1, P73-89, January 1986

The Ethics of Resource Allocation in Critical Care

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      Increasingly, the ethics of resource allocation is becoming one of the most critical ethical problems faced by critical care decision makers; what is lacking is a framework for analyzing the ethics of decisions in resource allocation.
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