Testing Medical Fairness: Incarceration and Eligibility for Advanced Heart Failure Therapies

Circ Heart Fail. 2019 Dec;12(12):e006517. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.119.006517. Epub 2019 Dec 6.

Authors

Haiyan Ramirez Batlle¹, Ersilia M DeFilippis², Michael M Givertz³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine (H.R.B.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
² Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY (E.M.D.).
³ Cardiovascular Division (M.M.G.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

PMID: 31805783
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.119.006517

No abstract available

Keywords: ethics; heart failure; heart transplantation; heart-assist devices; prisoners.

MeSH terms

Clinical Decision-Making* / ethics
Eligibility Determination* / economics
Eligibility Determination* / ethics
Health Care Costs
Health Services Accessibility* / economics
Health Services Accessibility* / ethics
Healthcare Disparities* / economics
Healthcare Disparities* / ethics
Heart Failure / diagnosis
Heart Failure / economics
Heart Failure / physiopathology
Heart Failure / therapy*
Humans
Patient Rights* / ethics
Patient Selection* / ethics
Prisoners*