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Published in: Health Care Analysis 1/2011

Open Access 01-03-2011 | Original Article

Making a Difference: A Qualitative Study on Care and Priority Setting in Health Care

Authors: Helge Skirbekk, Per Nortvedt

Published in: Health Care Analysis | Issue 1/2011

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Abstract

The focus of the study is the conflict between care and concern for particular patients, versus considerations that take impartial considerations of justice to be central to moral deliberations. To examine these questions we have conducted qualitative interviews with health professionals in Norwegian hospitals. We found a value norm that implicitly seemed to overrule all others, the norm of ‘making a difference for the patients’. We will examine what such a statement implies, aiming to shed some light over moral dilemmas interwoven in bedside rationing.
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Metadata
Title
Making a Difference: A Qualitative Study on Care and Priority Setting in Health Care
Authors
Helge Skirbekk
Per Nortvedt
Publication date
01-03-2011
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Health Care Analysis / Issue 1/2011
Print ISSN: 1065-3058
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3394
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-010-0160-x

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