title: Age-based limitation for ICU care: is it ethical?
abstract: Only under utilitarian analysis can age-based limitation to ICU care be justified. In all other frameworks, age is only one consideration in the decision to admit or not admit. Because Americans are reluctant to give larger shares of money to healthcare when it means excluding other social needs, the utilitarian argument will continue to be debated.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Baltz
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D026686:Beneficence; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D028663:Ethical Theory; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D016294:Models, Nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D018579:Patient Selection; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012935:Social Justice; D028722:Virtues