Prioritization in Medicine

Chapter 1 Introduction to an International Dialogue on Prioritization in Medicine

Chapter 2 Fundamental Evaluation Criteria in the Medicine of the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 3 Hellish Decisions in Healthcare

Chapter 4 Accountability for Reasonableness and Priority Setting in Health

Chapter 5 Social Value Maximization and the Multiple Goals Assumption: Is Priority Setting a Maximizing Task at All?

Chapter 6 The Trade-Off Metaphor in Priority Setting: A Comment on Lübbe and Daniels

Chapter 7 Prioritisation: (At Least) Two Normative Cultures

Chapter 8 Health-Care Priority Setting in Practice: Seven Unresolved Problems

Chapter 9 Recent Developments on the Issue of Health-Care Priority Setting in Norway

Chapter 10 Prioritization in Health Care: Normative Perspective

Chapter 11 Rebalancing the Rationing Debate: Tackling the Tensions Between Individual and Community Rights

Chapter 12 The Law Behind Priorities: Implementation of Priority Setting in Health Care – The German Example

Chapter 13 Priority Setting and Age

Chapter 14 Fair Innings as a Basis for Prioritization: An Empirical Perspective

Chapter 15 Just Caring: Fair Innings and Priority Setting

Chapter 16 Personal Responsibility as a Criterion for Prioritization in Resource Allocation

Chapter 17 Age and Personal Responsibility as Prioritization Criteria? The View of the Public and of Physicians

Chapter 18 Using Economic Evaluation in Priority Setting: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?

Chapter 19 Let’s Talk About Health Economic Evaluation: Relevant Contextual Factors for the German “Sonderweg”