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Title |
Journal |
Year |
PubWeight™‹?› |
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1
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The Affordable Care Act and the future of clinical medicine: the opportunities and challenges.
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Ann Intern Med
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2010
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9.59
|
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2
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Risks and benefits of phase 1 oncology trials, 1991 through 2002.
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N Engl J Med
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2005
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8.25
|
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3
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Results of the National Initiative for Cancer Care Quality: how can we improve the quality of cancer care in the United States?
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J Clin Oncol
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2006
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5.40
|
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4
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Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions.
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Lancet
|
2009
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4.55
|
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5
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Ethical issues concerning research in complementary and alternative medicine.
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JAMA
|
2004
|
4.48
|
|
6
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The obligation to participate in biomedical research.
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JAMA
|
2009
|
4.34
|
|
7
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Descriptions of benefits and risks in consent forms for phase 1 oncology trials.
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N Engl J Med
|
2002
|
3.62
|
|
8
|
Shared decision making to improve care and reduce costs.
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N Engl J Med
|
2013
|
3.48
|
|
9
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The cost of marginal medicine is too high.
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MedGenMed
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2005
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3.33
|
|
10
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Quantifying the federal minimal risk standard: implications for pediatric research without a prospect of direct benefit.
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JAMA
|
2005
|
3.14
|
|
11
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The cost of institutional review boards in academic medical centers.
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N Engl J Med
|
2005
|
3.06
|
|
12
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Prescribing "placebo treatments": results of national survey of US internists and rheumatologists.
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BMJ
|
2008
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2.84
|
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13
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Patients' decision-making process regarding participation in phase I oncology research.
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J Clin Oncol
|
2006
|
2.72
|
|
14
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Developing a system to assess the quality of cancer care: ASCO's national initiative on cancer care quality.
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J Clin Oncol
|
2004
|
2.52
|
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15
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Medicare's requirement for research participation as a condition of coverage: is it ethical?
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JAMA
|
2006
|
2.43
|
|
16
|
Research with stored biological samples: what do research participants want?
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Arch Intern Med
|
2005
|
2.43
|
|
17
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The prognosis for changes in end-of-life care after the Schiavo case.
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Health Aff (Millwood)
|
2005
|
2.40
|
|
18
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Patients' views on financial conflicts of interest in cancer research trials.
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N Engl J Med
|
2006
|
2.29
|
|
19
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Ethics of phase 1 oncology studies: reexamining the arguments and data.
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JAMA
|
2003
|
2.28
|
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20
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Ethical guidance on the use of life-sustaining therapies for patients with Ebola in developed countries.
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Ann Intern Med
|
2014
|
2.19
|
|
21
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US health aid beyond PEPFAR: the Mother & Child Campaign.
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JAMA
|
2008
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2.17
|
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22
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The 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Helsinki: progress but many remaining challenges.
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JAMA
|
2013
|
2.16
|
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23
|
Community permission for medical research in developing countries.
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Clin Infect Dis
|
2005
|
2.01
|
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24
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The standard of care debate: can research in developing countries be both ethical and responsive to those countries' health needs?
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Am J Public Health
|
2004
|
1.88
|
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25
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The patents-based pharmaceutical development process: rationale, problems, and potential reforms.
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JAMA
|
2005
|
1.83
|
|
26
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The ethics of paying for children's participation in research.
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J Pediatr
|
2002
|
1.80
|
|
27
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What is a "minor" increase over minimal risk?
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J Pediatr
|
2005
|
1.79
|
|
28
|
Participants in phase 1 oncology research trials: are they vulnerable?
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Arch Intern Med
|
2008
|
1.74
|
|
29
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Ethical, scientific, and regulatory perspectives regarding the use of placebos in cancer clinical trials.
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J Clin Oncol
|
2008
|
1.71
|
|
30
|
Will physicians lead on controlling health care costs?
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JAMA
|
2013
|
1.71
|
|
31
|
Health care reform and cost control.
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N Engl J Med
|
2010
|
1.66
|
|
32
|
Ethics. The ethics of international research with abandoned children.
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Science
|
2007
|
1.65
|
|
33
|
Frequency, type, and monetary value of financial conflicts of interest in cancer clinical research.
|
J Clin Oncol
|
2007
|
1.65
|
|
34
|
Why patients continue to participate in clinical research.
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Arch Intern Med
|
2008
|
1.62
|
|
35
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Ending concerns about undue inducement.
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J Law Med Ethics
|
2004
|
1.55
|
|
36
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Health care reform: why? What? When?
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Health Aff (Millwood)
|
2005
|
1.50
|
|
37
|
Regional ethics organizations for protection of human research participants.
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Nat Med
|
2004
|
1.48
|
|
38
|
Can primary care visits reduce hospital utilization among Medicare beneficiaries at the end of life?
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J Gen Intern Med
|
2008
|
1.47
|
|
39
|
Improving access to health care: a consensus ethical framework to guide proposals for reform.
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Hastings Cent Rep
|
2007
|
1.47
|
|
40
|
Access and ability to pay: the ethics of a tiered health care system.
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Arch Intern Med
|
2007
|
1.46
|
|
41
|
A historic moment for open science: the Yale University Open Data Access project and medtronic.
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Ann Intern Med
|
2013
|
1.45
|
|
42
|
Can the United States buy better advance care planning?
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Ann Intern Med
|
2014
|
1.41
|
|
43
|
ASCO core values.
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J Clin Oncol
|
2006
|
1.40
|
|
44
|
Quality-improvement research and informed consent.
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N Engl J Med
|
2008
|
1.40
|
|
45
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Does random treatment assignment cause harm to research participants?
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PLoS Med
|
2006
|
1.39
|
|
46
|
The transparency imperative.
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Ann Intern Med
|
2013
|
1.39
|
|
47
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The moral duty to buy health insurance.
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JAMA
|
2012
|
1.38
|
|
48
|
Quantifying the harmful effect of psoriasis on health-related quality of life.
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J Am Acad Dermatol
|
2002
|
1.37
|
|
49
|
Tier 4 drugs and the fraying of the social compact.
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N Engl J Med
|
2008
|
1.16
|
|
50
|
The quality of informed consent in a clinical research study in Thailand.
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IRB
|
2005
|
1.13
|
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51
|
PEPFAR and maximizing the effects of global health assistance.
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JAMA
|
2012
|
1.12
|
|
52
|
Single- vs multiple-fraction radiotherapy for bone metastases from prostate cancer.
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JAMA
|
2013
|
1.11
|
|
53
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Evaluating the risks of clinical research.
|
JAMA
|
2010
|
1.09
|
|
54
|
Alternative medicine research in clinical practice: a US national survey.
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Arch Intern Med
|
2009
|
1.07
|
|
55
|
Risks and benefits associated with novel phase 1 oncology trial designs.
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Cancer
|
2007
|
1.07
|
|
56
|
Using Behavioral Economics to Design Physician Incentives That Deliver High-Value Care.
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Ann Intern Med
|
2015
|
1.01
|
|
57
|
Clarifying confusions about coercion.
|
Hastings Cent Rep
|
2005
|
1.01
|
|
58
|
Satisfaction of the uncertainty principle in cancer clinical trials: retrospective cohort analysis.
|
BMJ
|
2004
|
0.98
|
|
59
|
Who's caring for whom? Differing perspectives between seriously ill patients and their family caregivers.
|
Am J Hosp Palliat Care
|
2006
|
0.96
|
|
60
|
Survey of oncologists about shortages of cancer drugs.
|
N Engl J Med
|
2013
|
0.95
|
|
61
|
The general agreement on trade in services: implications for health policymakers.
|
Health Aff (Millwood)
|
2004
|
0.94
|
|
62
|
Post-trial access to tested interventions: the views of IRB/REC chair, investigators, and research participants in a multinational HIV/AIDS study.
|
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses
|
2006
|
0.94
|
|
63
|
Why well-insured patients should demand value-based insurance benefits.
|
JAMA
|
2007
|
0.93
|
|
64
|
Media exposure and tobacco, illicit drugs, and alcohol use among children and adolescents: a systematic review.
|
Subst Abus
|
2010
|
0.92
|
|
65
|
Considering usual medical care in clinical trial design.
|
PLoS Med
|
2009
|
0.91
|
|
66
|
The ethics of not hiring smokers.
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N Engl J Med
|
2013
|
0.91
|
|
67
|
Circumcision and HIV prevention research: an ethical analysis.
|
Lancet
|
2006
|
0.90
|
|
68
|
The current state of medical school education in bioethics, health law, and health economics.
|
J Law Med Ethics
|
2008
|
0.90
|
|
69
|
Patterns of care studies: creating "an environment of watchful concern".
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J Clin Oncol
|
2003
|
0.90
|
|
70
|
Depression, euthanasia, and improving end-of-life care.
|
J Clin Oncol
|
2005
|
0.89
|
|
71
|
Institutional review board review of multicenter studies.
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Ann Intern Med
|
2007
|
0.88
|
|
72
|
Advance directives and cost savings: greater clarity and perpetual confusion.
|
Arch Intern Med
|
2012
|
0.85
|
|
73
|
Reengineering US health care.
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JAMA
|
2013
|
0.85
|
|
74
|
The ethics of research in developing countries: assessing voluntariness.
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Lancet
|
2005
|
0.84
|
|
75
|
Overcoming the pricing power of hospitals.
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JAMA
|
2012
|
0.84
|
|
76
|
A consent form template for phase I oncology trials.
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IRB
|
2009
|
0.84
|
|
77
|
Informed consent: practices and views of investigators in a multinational clinical trial.
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IRB
|
2006
|
0.83
|
|
78
|
Does the evidence make a difference in consumer behavior? Sales of supplements before and after publication of negative research results.
|
J Gen Intern Med
|
2008
|
0.82
|
|
79
|
Benefits and burdens of participation in a longitudinal clinical trial.
|
J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics
|
2009
|
0.82
|
|
80
|
Nursing home residence confounds gender differences in Medicare utilization an example of Simpson's paradox.
|
Womens Health Issues
|
2010
|
0.82
|
|
81
|
Toward accountable cancer care.
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JAMA Intern Med
|
2013
|
0.81
|
|
82
|
Research benefits for hypothetical HIV vaccine trials: The views of Ugandans in the Rakai District.
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IRB
|
2008
|
0.81
|
|
83
|
Comparing the understanding of subjects receiving a candidate malaria vaccine in the United States and Mali.
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Am J Trop Med Hyg
|
2010
|
0.80
|
|
84
|
What does a hip replacement cost?: the transparency imperative in 2013. Comment on "Obtaining consumer prices from US hospitals for a common surgical procedure".
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JAMA Intern Med
|
2013
|
0.80
|
|
85
|
Religion, clinicians, and the integration of complementary and alternative medicines.
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J Altern Complement Med
|
2009
|
0.79
|
|
86
|
A communitarian health-care package.
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Responsive Community
|
1993
|
0.79
|
|
87
|
Factors that influence practitioners' interpretations of evidence from alternative medicine trials: a factorial vignette experiment embedded in a national survey.
|
Med Care
|
2010
|
0.78
|
|
88
|
Living wills: are durable powers of attorney better?
|
Hastings Cent Rep
|
2005
|
0.78
|
|
89
|
The ethics of research on enhancement interventions.
|
Kennedy Inst Ethics J
|
2010
|
0.78
|
|
90
|
Is there coercion or undue inducement to participate in health research in developing countries? An example from Rakai, Uganda.
|
J Clin Ethics
|
2009
|
0.77
|
|
91
|
Institutional review board reform.
|
N Engl J Med
|
2002
|
0.76
|
|
92
|
Technology licensing: lessons from the US experience.
|
JAMA
|
2005
|
0.76
|
|
93
|
Reconsidering the Declaration of Helsinki - Author' s reply.
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Lancet
|
2013
|
0.75
|
|
94
|
Use of Life-Sustaining Therapies for Patients With Ebola Virus Disease.
|
Ann Intern Med
|
2015
|
0.75
|
|
95
|
Reductions in funding for medical research--reply.
|
JAMA
|
2013
|
0.75
|
|
96
|
"Physician-assisted suicide among Oregon cancer patients": a fading issue.
|
J Clin Ethics
|
2006
|
0.75
|
|
97
|
Standing by our principles: meaningful guidance, moral foundations, and multi-principle methodology in medical scarcity.
|
Am J Bioeth
|
2010
|
0.75
|
|
98
|
Physicians advising investment firms.
|
JAMA
|
2005
|
0.75
|
|
99
|
Reforming American Medical Education.
|
Milbank Q
|
2017
|
0.75
|
|
100
|
Eight is too many: the case against octuplets.
|
New Repub
|
1999
|
0.75
|
|
101
|
Conserving scarce resources: willingness of health insurance enrollees to choose cheaper options.
|
J Law Med Ethics
|
2004
|
0.75
|
|
102
|
The Case for Resource Sensitivity: Why It Is Ethical to Provide Cheaper, Less Effective Treatments in Global Health.
|
Hastings Cent Rep
|
2017
|
0.75
|
|
103
|
Euthanasia and the care of cancer patients.
|
J Clin Oncol
|
1994
|
0.75
|
|
104
|
Volume Increases and Shared Decision-making in Joint Replacement Bundles.
|
Ann Surg
|
2017
|
0.75
|
|
105
|
What are bioethicists doing about health care reform?
|
Hastings Cent Rep
|
2008
|
0.75
|
|
106
|
Review of the American College of Physicians Ethics Manual, Sixth Edition.
|
Ann Intern Med
|
2012
|
0.75
|
|
107
|
The beginning of the end of principlism.
|
Hastings Cent Rep
|
1995
|
0.75
|
|
108
|
New strategies for aligning physicians with health system incentives.
|
Am J Manag Care
|
2016
|
0.75
|
|
109
|
The blossoming of bioethics at NIH.
|
Kennedy Inst Ethics J
|
1998
|
0.75
|
|
110
|
Legal reforms necessary to promote delivery system innovation.
|
JAMA
|
2008
|
0.75
|
|
111
|
Moving risk to physicians.
|
Am J Manag Care
|
2015
|
0.75
|
|
112
|
Is health care a commodity?
|
Lancet
|
1997
|
0.75
|
|
113
|
Assisted suicide? Not in my state.
|
N Y Times Web
|
1997
|
0.75
|
|
114
|
End-of-life care: the authors respond.
|
Health Aff (Millwood)
|
2005
|
0.75
|
|
115
|
Managing end-of-life care: comparing the experiences of terminally Ill patients in managed care and fee for service.
|
J Am Geriatr Soc
|
2002
|
0.75
|
|
116
|
Price and utilization: why we must target both to curb health care costs.
|
Ann Intern Med
|
2012
|
0.75
|
|
117
|
What is the great benefit of legalizing euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide?
|
Ethics
|
1999
|
0.75
|
|
118
|
The painful truth about euthanasia.
|
Wall St J (East Ed)
|
1997
|
0.75
|