Publications about priority setting in health care

Here is a selection of reports, doctoral theses, and peer-reviewed articles about priority setting in health care written by staff at the National Centre for Priorities in Health.

Reports from 2004-2011 are listed here, as well as peer-reviewed articles from 2010-2016. Search for more publications in DiVA, the publication database of Linköping University.

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Gustav Tinghög (2011)

The Art of Saying No: The Economics and Ethics of Healthcare Rationing

Faisal Omar (2011)

Just Waiting: Ethical Challenges in Priority Setting Posed by Organ Scarcity in Kidney Transplantation

Niklas Ekerstad (2011)

Micro Level Priority Setting for Elderly Patients with Acute Cardiovascular Disease and Complex Needs: Practice What We Preach or Preach What We Practice?

Mari Broqvist, Maria Branting Elgstrand, Per Carlsson, Kristina Eklund, Anders Jakobsson (2011)

National Model for Transparent Prioritisation in Swedish Health Care: Reviderad version

Per Carlsson, Christina Kärvinge, Mari Broqvist, Kristina Eklund, Bo Hallin, Catrine Jacobsson, Gunilla Jacobsson Ekman, Christina Källgren Peterson, Marion Lindh, Britt Nordlander, Per Rosén, Urban Sjöblom, Anna Sohlberg (2007)

National Model for Transparent Vertical Prioritisation in Swedish Health Care

Katrin Lindroth (2008)

Resolving health care's difficult choices: survey of priority setting in Sweden and an analysis of principles and guidelines on priorities in health care

Karin Bäckman, Anna Andersson, Per Carlsson (2004)

Transparent Priorities in Östergötland: Part I. The Political Decision Making process

Articles 2016 Show/Hide content

Peter Garpenby, Karin Bäckman (2016)

Formal priority setting in health care: the Swedish experience

Journal of Health Organization & Management , Vol.30 , s.891-907 Continue to DOI

Peter Garpenby, Ann-Charlotte Nedlund (2016)

Political strategies in difficult times - The "backstage" experience of Swedish politicians on formal priority setting in healthcare

Social Science and Medicine , Vol.163 , s.63-70 Continue to DOI

Lars Sandman, Erik Gustavsson (2016)

Beyond the Black Box Approach to Ethics! Comment on "Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy".

International Journal of Health Policy and Management , Vol.5 , s.393-394 Continue to DOI

Articles 2015 Show/Hide content

Mari Broqvist, Peter Garpenby (2015)

It takes a giraffe to see the big picture - Citizens' view on decision makers in health care rationing

Social Science and Medicine , Vol.128 , s.301-308 Continue to DOI

Johanna Wiss, David Andersson, Paul Slovic, Daniel Västfjäll, Gustav Tinghög (2015)

The influence of identifiability and singularity in moral decision making

Judgment and decision making , Vol.10 , s.492-502 Continue to DOI

Manne Sjostrand, Petter Karlsson, Lars Sandman, Gert Helgesson, Stefan Eriksson, Niklas Juth (2015)

Conceptions of decision-making capacity in psychiatry: interviews with Swedish psychiatrists

BMC Medical Ethics , Vol.16 Continue to DOI

Articles 2014-2015 Show/Hide content

Erik Gustavsson, Lars Sandman (2015)

Health-care needs and shared decision-making in priority-setting

Medicine, Health care and Philosophy , Vol.18 , s.13-22 Continue to DOI

Almina Kalkan, Johanna Sandberg, Peter Garpenby (2015)

Management by Knowledge in Practice: Implementation of National Healthcare Guidelines in Sweden

Social Policy & Administration , Vol.49 , s.911-927 Continue to DOI

Mari Broqvist, Peter Garpenby (2014)

To accept, or not to accept, that is the question: citizen reactions to rationing

Health Expectations , Vol.17 , s.82-92 Continue to DOI

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Erik Gustavsson (2014)

From Needs to Health Care Needs

Health Care Analysis , Vol.22 , s.22-35 Continue to DOI

Ann-Charlotte Nedlund, Kristine Bærøe (2014)

Legitimate Policymaking: The Importance of Including Health-care Workers in Limit-Setting Decisions in Health care

Public Health Ethics , Vol.7 , s.123-133 Continue to DOI

Articles 2013-2014 Show/Hide content

Gustav Tinghög, David Andersson, Petter Tinghög, Carl H. Lyttkens (2014)

Horizontal Inequality in Rationing by Waiting Lists

International Journal of Health Services , Vol.44 , s.169-184 Continue to DOI

Ole F Norheim, Rob Baltussen, Mira Johri, Dan Chisholm, Erik Nord, DanW Brock, Per Carlsson, Richard Cookson, Norman Daniels, Marion Danis, Marc Fleurbaey, Kjell A Johansson, Lydia Kapiriri, Peter Littlejohns, Thomas Mbeeli, Krishna D Rao, Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer, Dan Wikler (2014)

Guidance on priority setting in health care (GPS-Health): the inclusion of equity criteria not captured by cost-effectiveness analysis

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation , Vol.12 Continue to DOI

Faisal Omar, Gustav Tinghög, Per Carlsson, Marie Omnell Persson, Stellan Welin (2013)

Priority setting in kidney transplantation: A qualitative study evaluating Swedish practices

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health , Vol.41 , s.206-215 Continue to DOI