scholarly journals When Demand Outstrips Supply: A Christian View of the Ethics of Healthcare Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
James Haslam ◽  
Melody Redman
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Healthcare Resource ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Healthcare Resources ◽  
Christian View ◽  
Healthcare Resource Allocation

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic presents the greatest challenge to global healthcare systems in living memory. This article deals with the ethics of rationing the supply of scarce healthcare resources, such as ventilators, during periods of high demand, such as the current pandemic. Existing ethical guidelines and commentaries are cited and critiqued from a Christian ethics viewpoint.

scholarly journals Incorporating Portfolio Uncertainty in Decision Rules for Healthcare Resource Allocation

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 325
Author(s):  
Pedram Sendi ◽  
Amiram Gafni ◽  
Stephen Birch ◽  
Stephen D. Walter
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Value Function ◽  
Healthcare Resource ◽  
Decision Rules ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Risk Averse ◽  
Healthcare Resources ◽  
Healthcare Program ◽  
Program Costs ◽  
Healthcare Resource Allocation

Cost-effectiveness analysis is widely adopted as a means to inform policy and decision makers in setting priorities for healthcare resource allocation. In resource-constrained settings, decision makers are confronted with healthcare resource reallocation decisions, e.g., moving funds from one or more existing healthcare programs to fund new healthcare programs. The decision-making plane (DMP) has been developed as a means to graphically present the results of reallocating available healthcare resources when healthcare program costs and effects are uncertain. Mapping a value function over the DMP allows the analyst to value all possible combinations of net costs and net effects that may result from reallocating available healthcare resources under conditions of uncertainty. In this paper, we extend this approach to include a change in portfolio risk, stemming from a change in the portfolios of funded healthcare programs, as an additional source of uncertainty, and demonstrate how this can be incorporated into the value function over net costs and net effects for a risk-averse decision maker. The methodology presented in this paper is of particular interest to decision makers who are risk averse, as it will help to better incorporate their preferences in the process of deciding how to best allocate scarce healthcare resources.

Healthcare Resource Allocation and Priority-setting. A European Challenge

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caterina Di Costanzo
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Priority Setting ◽  
Healthcare Resource ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Progressive Increase ◽  
Healthcare Resources ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Total Budget ◽  
Important Health ◽  
The Right

Abstract The right to health, as a right to healthcare, represents the most expensive social right in Europe, significantly affecting the total budget of the Member States, both in universal and insurance healthcare systems. No healthcare system provides unlimited healthcare resources to all its users. The resources available for healthcare are limited compared with demand, and all healthcare systems, regardless of their financing and organisation, employ mechanisms to prioritise finite healthcare resources. The progressive increase in healthcare costs in a context of scarce resources, worsened by the fiscal crisis of the 1990s and economic crises spreading in Europe since 2007, has highlighted the ever more urgent need to address the fundamental issues of resource allocation and priority-setting at both European and national levels. Hence, priority-setting is arguably one of the most important health policy issues of our time at global, European and national levels.

scholarly journals Value-Based Optimization of Healthcare Resource Allocation for COVID-19 Hot Spots

2021 ◽  
pp. 103-114
Author(s):  
Zachary A. Collier ◽  
Jeffrey M. Keisler ◽  
Benjamin D. Trump ◽  
Jeffrey C. Cegan ◽  
Sarah Wolberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Healthcare Resource ◽  
Healthcare Resource Allocation

scholarly journals The ethics of grandfather clauses in healthcare resource allocation

Bioethics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gry Wester ◽  
Leah Zoe Gibson Rand ◽  
Christine Lu ◽  
Mark Sheehan
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Healthcare Resource ◽  
Healthcare Resource Allocation

scholarly journals Ethical considerations relating to healthcare resource allocation decisions

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (11) ◽  
pp. 1364-1367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Olver ◽  
Susan Dodds ◽  
Jeremy Kenner ◽  
Ian Kerridge ◽  
Kevin McGovern ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Healthcare Resource ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Allocation Decisions ◽  
Healthcare Resource Allocation ◽  
Resource Allocation Decisions
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