Clinical actions and financial constraints: the limits to rationing intensive care
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This article examines three intensive care units and how they managed rationing issues. The authors discuss hard rationing, in which absolute physical and financial restrictions exist, and soft rationing, in which binding constraints can be relaxed, and maintain soft rationing was the norm in the ICUs studied.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 2001
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Normality, risk and the future: implicit communication of threat in health surveillance
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Health professionals practicing health surveillance have faced the challenges of communicating test results while counseling people about threats to their own and their families' health. Careful distinction in this context must be made between risk, normality, and threat.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 2001
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