Health care need

Health care need: three interpretations.

The argument that scarce health care resources should be distributed so that patients in 'need' are given priority for treatment is rarely contested. In this paper, we argue that if need is to play a significant role in distributive decisions it is crucial that what is meant by need can be precisely articulated. Following a discussion of the general features of health care need, we propose thre...

Ketamine: a growing global health-care need.

T. T. Dong1, J. Mellin-Olsen2 and A. W. Gelb3,* 1 Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, Room S436, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA, 2 Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive CareMedicine, BaerumHospital, PO Box 83, Oslo N-1309 RUD, Norway, and 3 Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, Sa...

Assessing Health Care Need for Prostatectomy

This thesis describes a study that estimated the health care need for prostatectomy in a typical district of 250,000, among men who have both the appropriate indications for treatment and who would choose treatment if offered. It established the appropriate indications for prostatectomy using a literature review and a nominal group type consensus panel consisting of 6 urologists and 3 general p...

Measuring the need for mental health care.

Assessing Health Care Need for Prostatectomy

This thesis describes a study that estimated the health care need for prostatectomy in a typical district of 250,000, among men who have both the appropriate indications for treatment and who would choose treatment if offered. It established the appropriate indications for prostatectomy using a literature review and a nominal group type consensus panel consisting of 6 urologists and 3 general p...