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Background: Priority setting in healthcare is a key determinant of health system
performance. However, there is no widely accepted priority setting evaluation framework …

There has been much speculation about whether the National Institute for Health and
Clinical Excellence (NICE) has, or ought to have, a'threshold'figure for the cost of an …

Priority setting of health interventions is generally considered as a valuable approach to
support low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) in their strive for universal health …

In a context of ever increasing demand, the recent economic downturn has placed further
pressure on decision-makers to effectively target healthcare resources. Over recent years …

Across a range of health care systems there is a responsibility placed on meso-level budget
holders to set priorities and allocate resources within constrained budgets. The literature …

Healthcare technology is a two-edged sword-it offers new and better treatment to a wider
range of people and, at the same time, is a major driver of increasing costs in health …

Using economics to set pragmatic and ethical priorities | The BMJ Skip to main content Intended
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Moral distress—the physical and emotional response to feeling prevented from carrying out
ethically proper action—can have serious consequences for health professionals and …

Programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA) is becoming an increasingly popular
tool in setting health service priorities. This paper presents a novel multi-attribute utility …