Rationing is the allocation of scarce resources, which in health care necessarily entails
withholding potentially beneficial treatments from some individuals. Rationing is …

Systematic reviews, which were developed to improve policy-making and clinical decision-
making, answer an empirical question based on a minimally biased appraisal of all the …

The population in the developed world has experienced a significant increase in life
expectancy over the last 50 years. Simultaneously, while the onset of comorbidities has …

Despite its high prevalence and burden, insomnia is often trivialized, under-diagnosed, and
under-treated in practice. Little information is available on the subjective experience and …

Rationale Intensive care unit (ICU) resources are limited in many hospitals. Patients with
little likelihood of surviving are often admitted to ICUs. Others who might benefit from ICU are …

One of the most important controversies in the health economics discourse of the last twenty
years concerns the question whether the imminent ageing of the population in most OECD …

Killing someone directly is never morally right, but sometimes, choosing someone to save
and leaving another to die is. The moral philosophy, law, and medical ethics have all …

It is still an open question whether increasing life expectancy as such causes higher health
care expenditures (HCE) in a population. According to the “red herring” hypothesis, the …

Background With population aging (PA), the healthcare expenditure (HE) increases. The
aim of this study is to analyze the HE of different age groups and the effect of age on HE …

Background: Publications and discussions of survey research in empirical bioethics have
steadily increased over the past two decades. However, findings often differ among studies …