Allocating health care resources: a questionnaire experiment on the predictive success of rules

• Published in: International journal for equity in health Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 112 - 12
• Main Authors: Ahlert, Marlies, Schwettmann, Lars
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 26.06.2017; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Allocation; Classroom experiment; Consistency of decision making; Decision making; Decisions; Distribution principles; Economic theory; Efficiency; Equality; Experiments; Fairness; Germany; Health care; Health care expenditures; Health care policy; Health Care Rationing; Health Priorities; Health services; Humans; Hypotheses; Judgments; Measure of predictive success; Medical research; Medical treatment; Monotonicity of allocations; Moral judgment; Morals; Objectives; Patients; Politics; Polls & surveys; Preservation; Principles; Priorities; Priority setting for spending; Property; Psychological aspects; Public health; Questionnaires; Reasoning; Reproducibility of Results; Research methodology; Research subjects; Resource allocation; Resources; Social choice; Studies; Surveys and Questionnaires; Welfare economics; Germany; Classroom experiment; Monotonicity of allocations; Distribution principles; Measure of predictive success; Selten’s measure of predictive success; Consistency of decision making; Priority setting for spending

The topic of this paper is related to equity in health within a country. In public health care sectors of many countries decisions on priority setting with respect to treatment of different types of diseases or patient groups are implicitly or explicitly made. Priorities are realized by allocation d...