A moral decision support system in medicine

Intensive Care Units are, in hospitals, special units where the use of ethics is common. Usually, there are few available beds and financial costs are huge. In this paper, it is presented a model for the simulation of the allocation of resources, in an Intensive Care Unit. Since it is a problem that...

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Main Author: Pontes, Gabriel (author)
Other Authors: Duarte, Ana (author), Cuevas, David (author), Salazar, Maria (author), Miranda, Miguel (author), Abelha, António (author), Machado, José Manuel (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/15364
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/15364