Setting Limits Fairly Learning to Share Resources for Health

by Daniels, Norman; Sabin, James E.

• ISBN13: 9780195325959
• ISBN10: 0195325958
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Harvard Univ., Boston, MA. Analyzes current situation in allocating medical resources, reviewing usual solutions and offering a new approach. This edition includes new chapters on the international response to accountability for reasonableness, and the approach in developing countries. For policy-makers. Previous edition not cited. Softcover. DNLM: Health Care Rationing.

Author Biography

James Sabin is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Ethics Program at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Co-Director of the Center for Ethics in Managed Care.

Table of Contents

Our Lives in Whose Hands?	p. 1
Justice, Scarcity, and Public Accountability for Limits	p. 13
The Legitimacy Problem and Fair Process	p. 25
Accountability for Reasonableness	p. 43
Managing Last-Chance Therapies	p. 67
Lung Volume Reduction Surgery: A Case Study	p. 85
Making Pharmacy Benefits Accountable for Reasonableness	p. 105
Indirect Limit Setting: Accountability for Physician Incentives	p. 121
Accountability for Reasonableness in Action: Public Sector Mental Health Contracting	p. 135
An International Learning Curve	p. 149
Learning to Share Medical Resources	p. 169
Revisiting the International Learning Curve	p. 175
Developing Country Applications of Accountability for Reasonableness	p. 193
New Uses for Accountability for Reasonableness	p. 211
Conclusion: What Next?	p. 231
References	p. 233
Index	p. 245
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