The U.S. faces a widening gap between the need for, and the supply of, transplantable organs. The waiting list for transplants increased 150% in the past decade; last year, about 6,000 people died awaiting a transplant. This need has rekindled debate about the morality and feasibility of using incentives to encourage posthumous organ donation. This Issue Brief explores attitudes of the public a...

British Journal ofGeneral Practice, February 2012 105 The argument is now, always has been, and always will be about rationing. From the inception of the NHS until quite recently, rationing was mostly achieved by the rough and ready system of waiting. The last government in its days of largesse decided this was intolerable. They threw a lot of money at the problem, created extra capacity by imp...

OBJECTIVES Due to an increasing demand for more examinations in a non-profitmaking hospital with a fixed budget, Lean Management was introduced in the Department of Radiology in 2006. The process, experience and results are discussed from a management view. METHODS Lean principles were introduced in the department and ways of working were adjusted accordingly. RESULTS Higher productivity an...

This study is an extension of the work of Furnham and Briggs (1993). It examined the choice strategies non-medical people employ when asked to rank-order a waiting list of patients suffering from kidney failure. Participants were given minimum demographic data about 16 hypothetical patients, and were asked to rank them in order of priority for treatment. Patients differed in sex, income, voting...

BACKGROUND Having a 'theory of mind', or having the ability to attribute mental states to oneself or others, is considered one of the most central domains of impairment among children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Many interventions focus on improving theory of mind skills in children with ASD. Nonetheless, the empirical evidence for the effect of these interventions is limited. The m...

BACKGROUND An emerging body of evidence indicates that relative to typically developing children, children with autism are selectively impaired in their ability to recognize facial identity. A critical question is whether face recognition skills can be enhanced through a direct training intervention. METHODS In a randomized clinical trial, children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder were...

Materials and methods A cost-effectiveness analysis of four programmes, Komet, Connect, the Incredible Years, Cope, and a selfguided book on parenting strategies compared to a waitlist control, was conducted at 4-months post-test, from a payer’s perspective, based on a RCT. The study samples consisted of 961 parents of 3-12 year-old children with conduct problems, including 862 who started a pr...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to develop a priority scoring system for patients on waiting lists for joint replacement based on a wide social participation, and to analyze the differences among participants. METHODS Conjoint analysis. Focus groups in combination with a nominal technique were employed to identify the priority criteria (N=36). A rank-ordered logit model was then applied for scoring est...

Roughly 100,000 patients worldwide undergo organ transplantation annually, but many other patients remain on waiting lists. Transplantation rates vary substantially across countries. Affluent patients in nations with long waiting lists do not always wait for donations from within their own countries. Commercially driven transplantation, however, does not always ensure proper medical care of rec...

Policy Survey asked hospital executives in five countries— Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States—for their views of their nation’s health care system, the level and quality of their hospitals’ resources, and efforts to improve quality of care.U.K.executives expressed confidence that hospital waiting lists are improving from what they were two years ago.When a...