The application of Accountability for Reasonableness includes: describing existing priority-setting practices in the district, evaluating the description using Accountability for Reasonableness and implementing improvement strategies in a continuous process to address gaps in Accountability for Reasonableness conditions (14).
Fairness in limit setting for admission to the intensive care unit can be evaluated using "Accountability for Reasonableness" (A4R).
Kapiriri evaluated priority setting using accountability for reasonableness' in several contexts of the Ugandan health system and identified opportunities for improvement[ 17, 18].
The framework is divided into five ethical processes, based on Daniels' widely used "accountability for reasonableness" model [ 16] and ten ethical values identified from previous research and expert consultation.
However, to our knowledge there has not been an empirical study describing and evaluating a formal system-wide wait time strategy using "accountability for reasonableness" with particular attention to public involvement, nor is there guidance for how to involve the public in a wait time management priority setting initiative.
Furthermore, to make the most of channels of stakeholder influence, deliberate efforts to sensitise the public, health care staff, ward and village development committees and village health governing committees to the importance of priority-setting using Accountability for Reasonableness is necessary.
Finally evaluation should aim to provide facts to be used for accountability for achieved results.
We used the Accountability for Reasonableness framework in our analysis to understand the decision-making process for adopting EVAR in an academic health sciences centre, since it identifies the conditions for fair process in limit setting exercises.
The results section is organized in two subsections: First we describe priority setting according to the themes that emerged from our case study: Second, we evaluate the description using the accountability for reasonableness framework.
It is understandable that the consultants would want to promote their best case studies; BP, for example, uses AccountAbility's own "AA1000" CSR standard.
It's the same faulty logic drug dealers use to deny accountability for inexcusably anti-social behavior.
