Abstract:Access to dialysis and kidney transplantation is limited in low and middle income countries, therefore rationing of dialysis services is usually necessary. Structured rationing systems however are often not in place and even when used may result in ethically irrelevant factors determining who gets dialysis. In this paper 1 propose a dialysis allocation system, based on a modification of the complete lives system, incorporating the following ethical principles: (1) prognosis (saving the most life-years), (2) sa… Show more
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