We can use ethical principles such as ensuring the common good, effectiveness, balancing benefits and burdens, and respecting patients' autonomy, or we can look at these cases through the concept of social justice.
The increasing pressure on Health Care Organizations (HCOs) to ensure efficiency and cost-effectiveness, balancing quality of care and cost containment, will drive them towards a more effective management of medical knowledge derived from research findings.
While the safety of long-term statin use has, therefore, been supported by systematic reviews, 4 22 issues about their side effects, effectiveness and the balance of risks and benefits, especially for people at low risk of CVD, have occasionally been widely publicised.
To determine the effectiveness of balance exercises on the functional level and quality of life (QOL) of patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and to investigate the circumstances associated with balance disorders in FMS.
First, apart from considerations of cost, safety and effectiveness, a balance between western and traditional Chinese medical technologies is included in the selection of AHTs.
The modified sensory organization test was used as the principal outcome measure to assess the effectiveness of balance specific exercise program.
20 To date, a factual cost effectiveness analysis balancing the costs and effects of either treatment is still lacking.
One of the ads is misleading because it fails to provide any risk information relating to side effects to balance the effectiveness claims, the F.D.A. wrote.
Qualitative researchers considering the use of these diagramming methods in interviews need to consider this effectiveness-efficiency balance.
Maudsley has summarised the changing role of the facilitator/tutor most eloquently: "The tutor's challenge is to forego the tightrope of effectiveness by balancing intervention in the group process between an informal, empathetic style and sparing use of personal content expertise" (p. 660)[ 11].
