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Cost-effectiveness and the controversial necessity of health care rationing -- Rationing according to cost-effectiveness: explicit, quantifiable, and unacceptable? -- The politics of defining health care rationing -- The necessity of rationing health care -- The challenge of measuring community values in ways appropriate for making rationing decisions -- How do people want to ration health care? Balancing cost-effectiveness and fairness -- Cost-effectiveness and bedside rationing: do two wrongs make a right? -- The case against bedside rationing -- Recognizing bedside rationing -- Linguistic confusion about bedside rationing -- The unbearable rightness of bedside rationing -- The future of cost-effectiveness analysis and health care rationing -- Future possibilities for improving how cost-effectiveness analysis incorporates public rationing preferences -- The future of cost-effectiveness analysis and health care rationing.
Title page verso: "Much of the empirical research presented here was published previously. References are provided to indicate where specific studies appeared. In addition, several of the arguments developed in this book are extensions of published articles. Chapter 2 is an extension of an article from the Archives of Internal Medicine, "Rationing" health care: Not all definitions are created equal, 158:209-214, 1998. Chapter 4 is an extension of a paper from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, The challenge of measuring community values in ways appropriate for setting health care priorities (in press). Chapter 7 is based on an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Recognizing bedside rationing: Clear cases and tough calls, 126:74-80, 1997. Chapter 8 is based on an article from the New England Journal of Medicine, Rationing by any other name, 336:1668-1671, 1997."
Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-197) and index.