TY - JOUR
T1 - Pediatric heart surgery in Ghana
T2 - Three ethical questions
AU - Eyal, Nir
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - When a group of doctors and nurses from Boston, Massachusetts, provided evaluation and heart surgery to children in Ghana, they encountered three rationing dilemmas: (1) What portion of surgery slots should they reserve for the simplest, most cost-effective surgeries? (2) How much time should be reserved for especially simple, nonsurgical interventions? (3) How much time should be reserved to training local staff to perform such surgeries? This article investigates these three dilemmas.
AB - When a group of doctors and nurses from Boston, Massachusetts, provided evaluation and heart surgery to children in Ghana, they encountered three rationing dilemmas: (1) What portion of surgery slots should they reserve for the simplest, most cost-effective surgeries? (2) How much time should be reserved for especially simple, nonsurgical interventions? (3) How much time should be reserved to training local staff to perform such surgeries? This article investigates these three dilemmas.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 25517570
AN - SCOPUS:84922531522
SN - 1046-7890
VL - 25
SP - 317
EP - 322
JO - Journal of Clinical Ethics
JF - Journal of Clinical Ethics
IS - 4
ER -