In cost‐utility analysis, the numbers of quality‐adjusted life years (QALYs) gained are
aggregated according to the sum‐ranking (or QALY maximisation) rule. This requires that …

In most societies resources are insufficient to provide everyone with all the health care they
want. In practice, this means that some people are given priority over others. On what basis …

BACKGROUND: It is widely assumed that the principal objective of healthcare is to
maximise health. However, people may be willing to sacrifice aggregate health gain in order …

Most health economists agree that public preferences should play a major role in setting
criteria for distributing scarce resources. The quality‐adjusted life year (QALY) is used as a …

As health costs in the US soar past $1.5 trillion, much evidence indicates that the nation
does not get good value for its money. It is widely agreed that we could do better by using …

OBJECTIVES: To identify characteristics of beneficiaries of health care over which relative
weights should be derived and to estimate relative weights to be attached to health gains …

Learning Objectives After completing this course, the reader will be able to: Describe how
academic oncologists view the costs of new treatments in their treatment recommendations …

We believe that the connections between the fields of social psychology and judgment and
decision making (JDM) run deep and that to exclude judgment and decision making from the …

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) offers decision makers a structured, rational approach
with which to improve the return on resources expended. But decades after its widespread …

Background: Previous studies have suggested that people favor allocating resources to
severely ill patients even when they benefit less from treatment than do less severely ill …