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Cost-Effectiveness and the Ethics of Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy

  • January 2, 2018

Submitted by: Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Source URL: http://www.jtcvsonline.org/article/S0022-5223(17)30642-6/fulltext

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  • Cardiac Clinical Care Providers
Author(s): John W.C. Entwistle III

A sobering editorial, read last May at the AATS, that discusses at length the ethics of ventricular assist as a super expensive therapy seen from the principle of fairness.

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