John McKie Peter Singer Helga Kuhse and Jeff Richardson
Ashgate Dartmouth
Hardback
164
1998
The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying. We urgently need an acceptable method for deciding how they should be allocated. The Quality-Adjusted Life Year or QALY is the most developed proposal for such allocation. In this book a distinguished team of ethicists and economists defend the core of the QALY proposal: that health care resources should be used so as to produce more years of life of the highest possible quality. The result is the most thorough account yet of the ethical issues raised by the use of the QALY as a basis for allocating health care resources.
Ashgate Dartmouth
Hardback
164
1998
The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying. We urgently need an acceptable method for deciding how they should be allocated. The Quality-Adjusted Life Year or QALY is the most developed proposal for such allocation. In this book a distinguished team of ethicists and economists defend the core of the QALY proposal: that health care resources should be used so as to produce more years of life of the highest possible quality. The result is the most thorough account yet of the ethical issues raised by the use of the QALY as a basis for allocating health care resources.