How Should Physicians Respond When the Best Treatment for an Individual Patient Conflicts with Practice Guidelines about the Use of a Limited Resource?

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Title: How Should Physicians Respond When the Best Treatment for an Individual Patient Conflicts with Practice Guidelines about the Use of a Limited Resource?
Authors: Howe EG 3rd; Professor of psychiatry and medicine and the director of ethics for the School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland, and a senior scientist at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Ethics, and chairs an institutional review board at USUHS, and sees patients at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Source: AMA journal of ethics [AMA J Ethics] 2017 Jun 01; Vol. 19 (6), pp. 550-557. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Jun 01.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal Info: Publisher: American Medical Association Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101649265 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2376-6980 (Electronic) NLM ISO Abbreviation: AMA J Ethics Subsets: MEDLINE
Database: MEDLINE Ultimate
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ISSN:2376-6980
DOI:10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.6.ecas3-1706