Sentence examples for rationing of patients from inspiring English sources

The NHS plans to dramatically increase rationing of patients' access to care and treatment in an effort to balance its books, a new survey of health bosses reveals.

It urges the government to give the service more than the planned £8bn or accept that failure to do so will lead to unpopular measures such even greater rationing of patients' access to treatment or the introduction of charges.

The clinical response rate (CR and PR ration) of patients with unresectable advanced HCC and portal vein tumor thrombosis to the combination therapy of IFN-α and hepatic arterial infusion of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is about 50% [ 6].

Prevalence is defined as the ration of patient hours of MRSA infected patients and all patients.

The aim of this study in Ethiopia was to provide a systematic description of physicians' experiences of resource scarcity, the bedside rationing strategies they used in public hospitals, and their perception of the consequences of rationing for patients and themselves.

Instead of encouraging new ways of delivering care, austerity has prompted rationing: the number of patients waiting longer than the 18-week target for hospital appointments has jumped by over 40%.

Some 3,000 kidney patients die each year while on the waiting list maintained by UNOS, the rogue cartel that monopolizes the harvesting and rationing of organs from patients who have died, (see FORBES, Nov. 1, 1999).

Flat-lining PEPFAR funding increases would, in essence, constitute "treatment rationing" for the millions of patients dying of this entirely treatable illness.

In other words, there's still a risk that "managing" care from the insurer's perspective will lead to rationing and a loss of patients' ability to control their own destinies.

Here, rationing decisions concern the allocation of patients to beds (ie admission, discharge) and the allocation of services to patients.

In particular the interdisciplinary discussion on priority setting (making a relative ranking of health care programmes, services or types of patients) and rationing (distributing scarce resources when no market exists) between these academic disciplines is quite challenging, due to the different methodologies and approaches used in each discipline [ 7- 9].