How to Make Allocation Decisions: A Theory and Test Questions

Hospital administrators are regularly faced with having to cut patient services. Such decisions are essentially questions of distributive justice, and administrators may welcome some guidance. We begin with a key idea from the most influential theory of justice of our times, that of John Rawls, and...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Healthcare management forum 2005, Vol.18 (1), p.32-33
Hauptverfasser:	Browne, Alister, Anderson, Terry, Brown, Don, Cooledge, Carson, Leal, Bonnie, McDonald, Dan, Saxe-Braithwaite, Marcy
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Bioethics Canada Decision Making, Organizational Efficiency, Organizational Ethics, Institutional Evidence-Based Medicine Health administration Health Services Needs and Demand Hospital Administration - ethics Hospital Administrators - psychology Hospital Administrators - standards Humans Personnel Loyalty Resource Allocation - ethics Resource Allocation - organization & administration Social Justice
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Zusammenfassung:	Hospital administrators are regularly faced with having to cut patient services. Such decisions are essentially questions of distributive justice, and administrators may welcome some guidance. We begin with a key idea from the most influential theory of justice of our times, that of John Rawls, and generate from it a series of test questions against which the ethical dimensions of allocation decisions can be judged.
ISSN:	0840-4704
DOI:	10.1016/S0840-4704(10)60302-X