Texas Eliminates Dumping

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
The transfer of uninsured patients from private to public hospitals for purely economic reasons, a practice known as "dumping," has attracted much unfavorable publicity of late, particularly when it has involved patients requiring emergency care. As I noted last year,1 medical judgment should always prevail over economic and administrative considerations in decisions about the movement of acutely ill or injured patients from one hospital to another; otherwise, much harm can be done. There is always risk and discomfort when such patients are transferred, even when they are thought to be "stabilized." That is why transfer can be justified only when . . .

This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit: