Resource Allocation

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'Rationing' health care. Not all definitions are created equal. 
  • A UNOS perspective on donor liver allocation. United Network for Organ Sharing. 
  • A change of heart: Preliminary results of the US 2018 adult heart allocation revision. 
  • A value model for evaluating homeland security decisions. 
  • Agree on much, except it is time for change. 
  • Allocating HIV-prevention resources: balancing efficiency and equity. 
  • Allocation of resources to collaborators and free-riders in 3-year-olds. 
  • An ethical framework for global vaccine allocation. 
  • An examination of factors predicting prioritization for liver transplantation. 
  • At what cost? Stewardship of our most important resources 
  • Can rural health insurance improve equity in health care utilization? A comparison between China and Vietnam. 
  • Catheterization Laboratory Considerations During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: From the ACC's Interventional Council and SCAI. 
  • Changes in United States heart allocation: A community energized to improve policy. 
  • Conducting economic evaluations alongside multinational clinical trials: toward a research consensus. 
  • Contractarianism and the "trolley" problem. 
  • Coping with critical drug shortages: an ethical approach for allocating scarce resources in hospitals. 
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis in a setting of budget constraints--is it equitable? 
  • Current opinions in organ allocation. 
  • Demographic and clinical variation in Veterans Health Administration provision of assistive technology devices to veterans poststroke. 
  • Designating places and populations as medically underserved: a proposal for a new approach. 
  • Determinants of states' allocations of the master settlement agreement payments. 
  • Distributing scarce livers: the moral reasoning of the general public. 
  • Do Differences in Programmatic Resource Investments Result in Different 3-Year Pass Rates on the U.S. National Physical Therapy Examination? 
  • Donation after circulatory determination of death in heart transplant: impact on current and future allocation policy. 
  • Dose response: intelligent rationing by physicians is the first step to a health-care system that society can afford. 
  • Effect of physician perspective on allocation of Medicare resources for patients with advanced cancer. 
  • Ensuring global access to COVID-19 vaccines. 
  • Equal Opportunity and Genetic Intervention 
  • Ethical aspects of banking placental blood for transplantation. 
  • Ethical considerations for allocation of scarce resources and alterations in surgical care during a pandemic. 
  • Ethical issues in umbilical cord blood banking. Working Group on Ethical Issues in Umbilical Cord Blood Banking. 
  • Ethics, law, and medicine: today's crossroads. 
  • Geographic favoritism in liver transplantation--unfortunate or unfair? 
  • Geographic favoritism in liver transplantation. 
  • Health values of the seriously ill. SUPPORT investigators. 
  • How 18- and 24-month-old peers divide resources among themselves. 
  • Impact of recipient body mass index on organ allocation and mortality in orthotopic heart transplantation. 
  • Impact of the model for end-stage liver disease allocation policy on the use of high-risk organs for liver transplantation. 
  • International justice and health: a proposal. 
  • Life-saving treatments and disabilities. Are all QALYs created equal? 
  • Life-sustaining therapy. A model for appropriate use. 
  • Lifetime Fitness in Wild Female Baboons: Trade-Offs and Individual Heterogeneity in Quality. 
  • Lockdown During COVID-19: The Greek Success. 
  • Lung transplantation at Duke University. 
  • Lying for patients: physician deception of third-party payers. 
  • Managed care: rationing without justice, but not unjustly. 
  • Medical care for the poor: finite resources, infinite need. 
  • Medical ethics in the primary care setting. 
  • NHAMCS Validation of Emergency Severity Index as an Indicator of Emergency Department Resource Utilization. 
  • Older age, aggressiveness of care, and survival for seriously ill, hospitalized adults. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • One Size Does Not Fit All--Regional Variation in the Impact of the Share 35 Liver Allocation Policy. 
  • Organ procurement: expenditures and financial incentives. 
  • Outcomes and cost-effectiveness of initiating dialysis and continuing aggressive care in seriously ill hospitalized adults. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Perceived transparency and fairness of the organ allocation system and willingness to donate organs: a national study. 
  • Perspectives on donor lung allocation from both sides of the Atlantic: The United States. 
  • Physician allocation of Medicare resources for patients with advanced cancer. 
  • Physician and Patient and Caregiver Health Attitudes and Their Effect on Medicare Resource Allocation for Patients With Advanced Cancer. 
  • Physicians' duties in an era of cost containment: advocacy or betrayal? 
  • Placental-blood transplantation. 
  • Prescriptions for justice: using social accounts to legitimate the exercise of professional control. 
  • Private and public choices in end-of-life care. 
  • Privatization and just healthcare. 
  • Procedural justice in children: Preschoolers accept unequal resource distributions if the procedure provides equal opportunities. 
  • Public perceptions of the importance of prognosis in allocating transplantable livers to children. 
  • Public preferences for efficiency and racial equity in kidney transplant allocation decisions. 
  • Radiation injury after a nuclear detonation: medical consequences and the need for scarce resources allocation. 
  • Rationing by any other name. 
  • Rationing failure. The ethical lessons of the retransplantation of scarce vital organs. 
  • Recognizing bedside rationing: clear cases and tough calls. 
  • Relationship between provider volume and outcomes for orthotopic liver transplantation. 
  • Religious aspects of futile treatment. 
  • Report from a forum on US heart allocation policy. 
  • Responding to the immunoglobulin shortage: a case study. 
  • Response to the 'Consensus Statement of the Working Group on Roman Catholic Approaches to Determining Appropriate Critical Care'. 
  • Rule of rescue or the good of the many? An analysis of physicians' and nurses' preferences for allocating ICU beds. 
  • Seriously ill hospitalized adults: do we spend less on older patients? Support Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preference for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Sharing the wealth: the effect of siblings on adults' wealth ownership. 
  • Should doctors ever lie on behalf of patients? 
  • Social responsibility, personal responsibility, and prognosis in public judgments about transplant allocation. 
  • Special considerations in the management of adult patients with acute leukaemias and myeloid neoplasms in the COVID-19 era: recommendations from a panel of international experts. 
  • Spiritual values in the setting of health care priorities. 
  • The Right to a Decent Minimum of Health Care 
  • The Value of Information in Decision-Analytic Modeling for Malaria Vector Control in East Africa 
  • The allocation of cadaver kidneys for transplantation in the United States: consensus and controversy. ASN Transplant Advisory Group. American Society of Nephrology. 
  • The challenge of measuring community values in ways appropriate for setting health care priorities. 
  • The costs of denying scarcity. 
  • The efficacy and equity of retransplantation: an experimental survey of public attitudes. 
  • The future direction of the adult heart allocation system in the United States. 
  • The impact of bariatric surgery on the Veterans Administration healthcare system: a cost analysis. 
  • The initial experience and response of vascular surgeons in Michigan during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • The new OPTN kidney allocation policy: potential for inequitable access among highly sensitized patients. 
  • The new United States heart allocation policy: Progress through collaborative revision. 
  • The public's preference for bedside rationing. 
  • The relative effects of home care client characteristics on the resource allocation process: do personality and demeanor matter? 
  • The unbearable rightness of bedside rationing. Physician duties in a climate of cost containment. 
  • Threats to the individual. 
  • Toward a broader view of values in cost-effectiveness analysis of health. 
  • Variables of importance in the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients database predictive of heart transplant waitlist mortality. 
  • Withholding medical treatment from the severely demented patient. Decisional processes and cost implications. 
  • Worldwide Organization of Neurocritical Care: Results from the PRINCE Study Part 1. 
  • Young children, but not chimpanzees, are averse to disadvantageous and advantageous inequities. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Jones, L. Gregory, Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams, Jr. Distinguished Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Christian Ministry in the Divinity School, Divinity School
  • Lee, Walter T, Professor of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, Radiation Oncology
  • Reed, Shelby Derene, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Sreenivasan, Gopal, Crown University Distinguished Professor in Ethics, Duke Science & Society