Prioritization in Medicine: An International Dialogue

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction to an International Dialogue on Prioritization in Medicine....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Fundamental Evaluation Criteria in the Medicine of the Twenty-First Century....Pages 11-37
Hellish Decisions in Healthcare....Pages 39-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Accountability for Reasonableness and Priority Setting in Health....Pages 47-56
Social Value Maximization and the Multiple Goals Assumption: Is Priority Setting a Maximizing Task at All?....Pages 57-66
The Trade-Off Metaphor in Priority Setting: A Comment on Lübbe and Daniels....Pages 67-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Prioritisation: (At Least) Two Normative Cultures....Pages 85-99
Health-Care Priority Setting in Practice: Seven Unresolved Problems....Pages 101-109
Recent Developments on the Issue of Health-Care Priority Setting in Norway....Pages 111-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Prioritization in Health Care: Normative Perspective....Pages 117-121
Rebalancing the Rationing Debate: Tackling the Tensions Between Individual and Community Rights....Pages 123-140
The Law Behind Priorities: Implementation of Priority Setting in Health Care – The German Example....Pages 141-159
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Priority Setting and Age....Pages 163-177
Fair Innings as a Basis for Prioritization: An Empirical Perspective....Pages 179-196
Just Caring: Fair Innings and Priority Setting....Pages 197-216
Personal Responsibility as a Criterion for Prioritization in Resource Allocation....Pages 217-239
Age and Personal Responsibility as Prioritization Criteria? The View of the Public and of Physicians....Pages 241-257
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Using Economic Evaluation in Priority Setting: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?....Pages 261-271
Let’s Talk About Health Economic Evaluation: Relevant Contextual Factors for the German “Sonderweg”....Pages 273-281