Topic
Resource allocation research, explained
4 open-access resource allocation studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- Should healthcare allocation include sustainability?
A sustainability principle is needed so drug-price spirals, antibiotic resistance, and shortages do not quietly wreck the values other allocation principles serve.
- Who should get the last NICU bed, according to the public?
When forced to choose which critically ill newborn gets the only intensive-care bed, ordinary people overwhelmingly chose to save the baby with the better prognosis, except when the difference between babies was tiny.
- Should doctors routinely ask patients whether they can afford food?
The authors argue that because lack of access to food shapes diagnosis and health as much as smoking or drinking, doctors are ethically obliged to ask about it.
- Is regionalising care fair to disabled people?
Regionalisation promises to integrate health and social services, which matters especially for people with disabilities and chronic illness in the community; the authors test that promise with a disability-ethics justice framework.