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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1997

The rationing debate. Rationing health care by age.

A Williams, J G Evans

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1997. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

A WilliamsCentre for Health Economics, University of York.
J G Evans

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Health Care RationingPatient SelectionResource AllocationAgedAge FactorsDecision MakingHealth PolicyHealth Services for the AgedHumansLife ExpectancyPrejudiceRisk AssessmentSocial JusticeSocial ValuesState MedicineUnited KingdomHealth Care and Public HealthNational Health Service

Identifiers

PMID9081009
PMCPMC2126190

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