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Lars Sandman

Professor

Director at National Centre for Priorities in Health.
My research area is organisational ethics in health-care, focusing on priority setting and ethical analysis of health-care methods.

Presentation

My research field involves studying ethical aspects of distributing scarce resources within health care and studying and developing methods for ethical analyses of health-care procedures.

Outside my research activity I have a number of assignments as ethics advisor for Swedish health care authorities and regions, e.g. The Swedish Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefits Agency, The National Board of Health and Well-being, The New Therapies Council, The Sahlgrenska University hospital, The Västra Götaland region etc.

Research projects

  • Just Severity – a research program on severity as a factor for priority setting – sponsored by the Swedish Research Council
  • Development and implementation of a model for horizontal priority setting within the Swedish Knowledge Management Structure.

About me

CV

  • PhD in practical philosophy, 2002.

Publications

2026

Lars Sandman, Martin Henriksson, Erik Gustavsson, David Lindqvist, Niklas Juth (2026) Cost-effectiveness, pharmaceutical pricing and the value flower - doing some gardening Medicine, Health care and Philosophy (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-026-10373-z
Maria Ahlerup, Johan Malmgren, Albert Gyllencreutz Castellheim, Johan Holmen, Ola Ingemansson, Lars Sandman, Helena Odenstedt Herges, Linda Block (2026) Swedish Intensive Care Physicians' Attitudes Towards Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment in Critically Ill Children Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, Vol. 70, Article e70256 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aas.70256
Martin Henriksson, Lars Sandman, Jonathan Siverskog (2026) Agreement in Qualitative and Quantitative Assessments of Disease Severity: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Reimbursement in Sweden Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, Vol. 24, p. 727-737 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40258-026-01040-8
Ken Bond, Lars Sandman, Erik Gustavsson (2026) Using a lottery to resolve indeterminacy when allocating resources for drugs for rare diseases Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 52, p. 481-488 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme-2023-109723

2025

Lars Sandman, Erik Gustavsson, Niklas Juth (2025) Heterogeneous Severity in Healthcare Priority Setting Public Health Ethics, Vol. 18, Article phaf022 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/phe/phaf022

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Recent publications

2026

Lars Sandman, Martin Henriksson, Erik Gustavsson, David Lindqvist, Niklas Juth (2026) Cost-effectiveness, pharmaceutical pricing and the value flower - doing some gardening Medicine, Health care and Philosophy (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-026-10373-z
Maria Ahlerup, Johan Malmgren, Albert Gyllencreutz Castellheim, Johan Holmen, Ola Ingemansson, Lars Sandman, Helena Odenstedt Herges, Linda Block (2026) Swedish Intensive Care Physicians' Attitudes Towards Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment in Critically Ill Children Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, Vol. 70, Article e70256 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aas.70256
Martin Henriksson, Lars Sandman, Jonathan Siverskog (2026) Agreement in Qualitative and Quantitative Assessments of Disease Severity: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Reimbursement in Sweden Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, Vol. 24, p. 727-737 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40258-026-01040-8
Ken Bond, Lars Sandman, Erik Gustavsson (2026) Using a lottery to resolve indeterminacy when allocating resources for drugs for rare diseases Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 52, p. 481-488 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme-2023-109723

2025

Lars Sandman, Erik Gustavsson, Niklas Juth (2025) Heterogeneous Severity in Healthcare Priority Setting Public Health Ethics, Vol. 18, Article phaf022 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/phe/phaf022

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