
Setting Limits Fairly
Can we learn to share medical resources?
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 28. March 2002
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-19-514936-4 (ISBN)
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Description
The central idea for this book is that we lack consensus on principles for allocating resources and in the absence of such a consensus we must rely on a fair decision-making process for setting limits on health care. The authors characterize key elements of this process in a variety of health care contexts where such decisions are made- decisions about insurance coverage for new technologies, pharmacy benefit management, the design of physician incentives, contracting for mental health care by public agencies, etc.- and they connect the problem in the U.S. with the same problem in other countries. They provide a cogent analysis of the current situation, lucidly review the usual candidate solutions, and describe their own approach, which represents a clear advance in thinking. Their intended audience is international since the problem of limits cuts across types of health care systems whether or not they have universal coverage.
Reviews / Votes
"In the next decade, every country will face very hard choices about how to allocate scarce medical resources. There is no consensus about what substative principles should be used to establish priorities for allocations. Instead, we will need fair procedures. Debate will focus on what those procedures should be. Daniels and Sabin's accountability for reasonableness and illuminating case studies will be invaluable in furthering that debate."--the NewEngland Journal of Medicine, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D.
"...keeps the reader engaged and helps the understanding of the criteria."--Doody's
"...offers a detailed procedural approach to limit setting where primarily the question of legitimacy is settled."--Nursing Ethics
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-514936-4 (9780195149364)
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03/2008
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02/2002
OUP USA
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Persons
Author
Professor of PhilosophyProfessor of Philosophy, Tufts University, USA
Clinical Professor of PsychiatryClinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA
Content
1. Our Lives in Whose Hands? ; 2. Justice, Scarcity, and Public Accountability for Limits ; 3. The Legitimacy Problem and Fair Process ; 4. Accountability for Reasonableness ; 5. Managing Last-Chance Therapies ; 6. Lung Volume Reduction Surgery: A Case Study ; 7. Making Pharmacy Benefits Accountable for Reasonableness ; 8. Indirect Limit Setting: Accountability for Physician Incentives ; 9. Accountability for Reasonableness in Action: Public Sector Contracting for Mental Health Care ; 10. An International Learning Curve ; 11. Learning to Share Medical Resources