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Racial, Sexual and Age Inequalities in Chronic Dialysis

Racial, Sexual and Age Inequalities in Chronic Dialysis Editorial © 1987 S .K a rg e r A G . Basel Nephron 45: 257 263 (1987) 0028 2 7 6 6 /8 7 /0 4 5 4 0257S 2.75/0 C M . KjeUstrand'c, George M. Loganh “University of M innesota Medical School and '’Hennepin County Medical Center, M inneapolis, Minn., USA, and “Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden It is common dency that nobody should suffer want of Measures of Distribution and Injustice medical care. A humane society tries to achieve distribu­ tive justice o f common welfare goods [1]. Some expensive In our attem pt to analyze discrimination in chronic dialysis, we will introduce two new concepts for the measure o f distributive high-technology medical care, such as renal dialysis and justice in medicine: percentage or fraction dialyzed: and the discri­ transplantation, is paid for by all through taxes. If people m ination index. need treatm ent and are excluded from it, they are finan­ The num ber o f patients treated was obtained from governmental cially cheated, and much worse, they will die and a dialysis statistics [6]. Once the number of patients treated is known, this will serve as the num erator, and the patients at http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nephron Karger

Racial, Sexual and Age Inequalities in Chronic Dialysis

Kjellstrand, C.M.; Logan, George M.
Nephron , Volume 45 (4): 7 – Jan 1, 1987
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Karger
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© 1987 S. Karger AG, Basel
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1660-8151
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2235-3186
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10.1159/000184160
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Editorial © 1987 S .K a rg e r A G . Basel Nephron 45: 257 263 (1987) 0028 2 7 6 6 /8 7 /0 4 5 4 0257S 2.75/0 C M . KjeUstrand'c, George M. Loganh “University of M innesota Medical School and '’Hennepin County Medical Center, M inneapolis, Minn., USA, and “Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden It is common dency that nobody should suffer want of Measures of Distribution and Injustice medical care. A humane society tries to achieve distribu­ tive justice o f common welfare goods [1]. Some expensive In our attem pt to analyze discrimination in chronic dialysis, we will introduce two new concepts for the measure o f distributive high-technology medical care, such as renal dialysis and justice in medicine: percentage or fraction dialyzed: and the discri­ transplantation, is paid for by all through taxes. If people m ination index. need treatm ent and are excluded from it, they are finan­ The num ber o f patients treated was obtained from governmental cially cheated, and much worse, they will die and a dialysis statistics [6]. Once the number of patients treated is known, this will serve as the num erator, and the patients at

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Published: Jan 1, 1987

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