Questions: Match each term with the correct description. cost-benefit analysis Examination of treatment costs in relation to the benefits created if a patient lives and/or the treatment is successful. Comparison of alternative treatment outcomes to find out which treatment is the most effective. quality-adjusted life years (QALY) Health care cost control measure allowing patients to choose their care providers within a certain price point. Comparison of alternative treatment outcomes to find out which treatment is the least expensive. natural life span One in which the body begins to naturally decline in earnest. Opportunity to live one's life in whatever way they find meaningful and fulfilling. Examination of treatment costs compared to relative risk of failure. The quality of life that can be expected in the later years of someone's life. Life span event that occurs late enough in life that one has had the potential The number of years of life remaining according to some measure of the quality of life of these years. possible meaningful Life span event that the collective societal view deems acceptable when weighing a person's years. tolerable death One in which life's possibilities have on the whole been achieved and after which death may be understood as a sad, but Fulfilling the special role of moral conservators who serve the young, balanced with society's duty to the elderly for dignity and

Transcript text: Match each term with the correct description. cost-benefit analysis Examination of treatment costs in relation to the benefits created if a patient lives and/or the treatment is successful. Comparison of alternative treatment outcomes to find out which treatment is the most effective. quality-adjusted life years (QALY) Health care cost control measure allowing patients to choose their care providers within a certain price point. Comparison of alternative treatment outcomes to find out which treatment is the least expensive. natural life span One in which the body begins to naturally decline in earnest. Opportunity to live one's life in whatever way they find meaningful and fulfilling. Examination of treatment costs compared to relative risk of failure. The quality of life that can be expected in the later years of someone's life. Life span event that occurs late enough in life that one has had the potential The number of years of life remaining according to some measure of the quality of life of these years. possible meaningful Life span event that the collective societal view deems acceptable when weighing a person's years. tolerable death One in which life's possibilities have on the whole been achieved and after which death may be understood as a sad, but Fulfilling the special role of moral conservators who serve the young, balanced with society's duty to the elderly for dignity and