Rationing, Patient Preferences, and Cost of Care at the End of Life

Advance Directives for Medical Care — A Case for Greater Use

1991 • 786 citations

Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society.

1988 • 581 citations

The Appropriateness of Carotid Endarterectomy

1988 • 501 citations

Physicians' and Spouses' Predictions of Elderly Patients' Resuscitation Preferences

1988 • 474 citations

Patient Attitudes to Discussing Life-Sustaining Treatment

1986 • 324 citations

The illusion of futility in clinical practice

1989 • 261 citations

The use and costs of Medicare services in the last 2 years of life.

1984 • 257 citations

What Kind of Life. The Limits of Medical Progress

1993 • 256 citations

Should Alcoholics Compete Equally for Liver Transplantation?

1991 • 251 citations

The Painful Prescription: Rationing Hospital Care, by Henry J. Aaron and William B. Schwartz

1984 • 230 citations

The Appropriateness of Performing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

1988 • 229 citations

Discussing cardiopulmonary resuscitation

1988 • 219 citations

Outcomes Research, Cost Containment, and the Fear of Health Care Rationing

1990 • 200 citations

Attitudes of hospitalized patients toward life support: A survey of 200 medical inpatients

1989 • 197 citations

“The High Cost of Dying”: What Do the Data Show?

2005 • 165 citations

Rationing Health Care: The Choice Before Us

1990 • 132 citations

The Care of the Terminally Ill: Morality and Economics

1983 • 116 citations

Planning with elderly outpatients for contingencies of severe illness

1988 • 109 citations

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Aged

1984 • 95 citations

Dealing with Limited Resources

1988 • 92 citations

Medical Care at the End of Life: The Interaction of Economics and Ethics

1986 • 67 citations

Nonionic contrast media: economic analysis and health policy development.

1989 • 60 citations

Cost Effectiveness as a Criterion for Medicare Coverage

1989 • 54 citations

Ethics, Economics, and Endocarditis

1988 • 22 citations

For the Health of a Nation: A Shared Responsibility

1990 • 15 citations