But it has been criticized by those who believe that decisions of priority should be based on purely medical criteria.

But then he proceeds to limit his enquiry to the medical criteria put before him.

The classification of a patient as 'terminally ill' is a decision for the doctor to make, based upon wholly medical criteria.

Most centers require that their patient live in the area, and the patients must meet the medical criteria established for the test.

Will that be decided politically, or based on medical criteria?

The German doctors in charge insisted that each of the candidates must pass every single medical criterion.

A committee of physicians screened potential patients first by strict medical criteria.

To qualify for the program, applicants must meet certain financial and medical criteria.

They must be over 12 years of age and meet stringent medical criteria.

He said he expected that legislation to establish medical criteria, at the least, would be introduced in the next Congress.