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Cost-Effectiveness and the Ethics of Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
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Source Name: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
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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- Cardiac Guidelines
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