TY - GEN AU - Thomasma,David C TI - Setting floating limits: functional status care categories as national policy SN - 0277-2027 PY - 1991///1216 KW - Advance Directives KW - Aged KW - Altruism KW - Beneficence KW - Biomedical Technology KW - Chronic Disease KW - Coercion KW - Critical Illness KW - Databases, Factual KW - Decision Making KW - Delivery of Health Care KW - Dementia KW - Euthanasia, Passive KW - Family KW - Freedom KW - Health Care Rationing KW - Humans KW - Life Support Care KW - Mandatory Programs KW - Patient Selection KW - Persistent Vegetative State KW - Personal Autonomy KW - Physicians KW - Public Policy KW - Quality of Life KW - Reference Standards KW - Resource Allocation KW - Risk KW - Risk Assessment KW - Social Values KW - Terminally Ill KW - United States KW - Withholding Treatment N1 - Publication Type: Journal Article ER -