Hierarchical criteria were applied to select empirical studies reporting stated preferences relating to hypothetical health care priority setting contexts.
A source of debate in the field of health care priority setting is whether health gains should be weighted differently for different groups of patients.
Government officials generally, and cabinet ministers especially, are a privileged class, entitled to free medical care, priority seats on trains and planes, use of government cars and virtually rent-free housing.
Objective: To describe perceptions of the administrative procedures for seasonal bed closures and their consequences in the intensive care unit (ICU), and to critique this example of health care priority setting for legitimacy and fairness.
A source of debate in the health care priority setting literature is whether to weight health gains to account for equity considerations, such as concern for those with very short life expectancy.
Recently the implementation of best practices to reduce line infections has become a national health care priority [12 14].
Reducing the frequency of these recurrent events by enhancing the uptake of effective pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions should therefore be considered an important health care priority.
GOALS: Management of the risk of potential chemotherapy-induced neutropenic complications such as febrile neutropenia (FN) and severe neutropenia (SN) is a quality of care priority.
Singapore uses a four-category system with the first three referring to a range of emergency acuities (priority 1 for resuscitative care, priority 2 for rapid care, priority 3 for urgent care in an ambulatory setting), and the fourth category referring to non-urgent care.
These include: patient preferences for non-market medical interventions, health professional preferences towards prescribing medicines and treatments, health care priority setting and consumer preferences towards health insurance schemes [1] [3].
In May, I challenged the new Presidential candidates to make a War on Alzheimer's a top health care priority, and I know that researchers are hard at work developing new drugs to treat, prevent, and slow the disease.
