title: Dying in 559 beds: efficiency, 'best buys', and the ethics of standardization in national health care.
abstract: While a national health care system may be greeted with enthusiasm on many grounds, it poses substantial moral problems--not the least of which would be the clash between the 'standardization' of care for the sake of efficiency and the needs of individual patients. Such problems are best seen in the treatment of dying patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112.
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Battin
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols / Q000592:standards; D017046:Cost Savings; D032981:Dehumanization; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D004526:Efficiency; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000592:standards; D038622:Internationality; D008489:Medical Indigency; D009014:Morals; D009310:National Health Insurance, United States / Q000191:economics; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States