ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1996
Media coverage of the Child B case.
Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Mass media interventions: effects on health services utilisation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2002Pooled it
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- Survivors on Cancer: the portrayal of survivors in print news.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2007Article
- External influences and priority-setting for anti-cancer agents: a case study of media coverage in adjuvant trastuzumab for breast cancer.BMC cancer · 2007Review
- Confidentiality and the ethics of medical ethics.Journal of medical ethics · 2003Article
- Public involvement in health care priority setting: an economic perspective.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 1999Article
- Healthcare rationing-are additional criteria needed for assessing evidence based clinical practice guidelines?BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999Review
- "If a patient is too costly they tend to get rid of you:" the impact of people's perceptions of rationing on the use of primary care.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 1999Article
- Cochrane Lecture 1997. What evidence do we need for evidence based medicine?Journal of epidemiology and community health · 1997Article
- Drug rationing in the UK National Health Service. Current status and future prospects.PharmacoEconomics · 1997Review
- Rationing health care.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1996Article
- Rationing health care: moving the debate forward.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1996Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The case of a girl with leukaemia, known as Child B, hit the headlines in March 1995 when her father refused to accept the advice of doctors who counselled against further treatment and took Cambridge and Huntingdon Health Authority to court for refusing to fund chemotherapy and a second bone transplant for her in the private sector. British national newspapers varied greatly in the way they covered the case. Some paid little attention to clinical considerations and presented the case as an example of rationing based on financial considerations. Their selective presentations meant that anyone reading just one newspaper would have received only limited and partial information. If members of the public are to participate in debates about treatment decisions and health care rationing, means other than the media will need to be found to inform and involve them.
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