The Allocation of Health Care Resources: An Ethical Evaluation of the 'QALY' Approach - Medico-Legal Series 1e uitgave

The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying. We urgently need an acceptable method for deciding how they should be allocated. The Quality-Adjusted Life Year, or QALY, is the most developed proposal for such allocation. In this book a distinguished team of ethicists and economists defend the core of the QALY proposal: that heal