Basic Benefits And Clinical Guidelines

This book explains how clinical guidelines might be used to define health care needs and basic benefits. It discusses certain technical issues of the model proposal, including the importance of considering both health outcome evidence and patient and public preferences.

Autorentext

Hadorn, David C.

Inhalt

Foreword -- Preface -- The Model Proposal: Designing Basic Benefit Plans Using Clinical Guidelines -- Defining Our Terms -- Necessary-Care Guidelines -- The Model Proposal -- Analysis of the Model Proposal -- Ethical Considerations -- Response to Callahan -- Technical Considerations -- Response to Kaplan -- Legal and Political Considerations I -- Legal and Political Considerations II -- Response to Greely and Havighurst -- Counterpoint: The Oregon Medicaid Experiment -- The Oregon Priority-Setting Process -- Epilog