Should Basic Care Get Priority?: Doubts About Rationing the Oregon Way

Rationing care in Oregon: the new accountability.

On the Oregon trail: rationing health care.

The introduction of the purchaser-provider principle into the NHS will have at least one uncomfortable consequence perhaps not fully expected by its authors. It will direct public attention even more to decisions about the level and distribution of resources, both nationally and locally. In the past decisions about who should (and should not) get what medical treatment have been perceived, and ...

Governments should reduce prices before rationing care.

I welcome the Comment by Didier Raoult (Jan 9, p 104), which proposes the post-Darwinist concept of the evolutionary pathway as a rhizome instead of a tree, with inheritance occurring not only vertically but also laterally. He rightly addresses how the genomic revolution has forced us to reconsider the way we describe evolution. Perhaps one of the most important unresolved issues in the study o...

Priority Setting and Rationing in Primary Health Care

3 List of Papers 5 Abbreviations 7 Background 9 Introduction 9 Priority setting and rationing – why and what it is 10 Aspects of priority setting and rationing 12 Priority setting at different levels 14 Vertical and horizontal priority setting 14 Explicit and implicit priority setting 15 Central components in priority setting 16 Facts 16 Values 17 Process 18 Synthesis 20 Priority setting in Swe...

Doubts about dementia diagnoses.