The Oregon Health Services Commission recently completed work on its principal charge:
creation of a prioritized list of health care services, ranging from the most important to the least …

This article describes the system for rating the quality of medical evidence developed and
used during creation of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research-sponsored heart …

New Zealand restructured its health system in 1992 with the aim of achieving greater levels
of assessment and accountability in the publicly funded health sector. A committee was …

Rationale, aims and objectives An Achilles’ heel of Canadian Medicare is long waits for
elective services. The Western Canada Waiting List (WCWL) project is a collaboration of 19 …

Practitioners should perform a chest radiograph, electrocardiogram, complete blood count,
serum electrolytes, serum creatinine, serum albumin, liver function tests, and urinalysis for all …

Public values must play a substantial role in any attempt to deal with the health care resource
allocation problem. This article examines how preferences for the health outcomes of care (…

Methods The panel developed and tested a collection of standardized clinical criteria for
setting priorities among patients awaiting hip and knee replacement. The criteria were applied …

OBJECTIVE: The Western Canada Waiting List Project (WCWL) is a federally funded partnership
of 19 health-related organizations that was created to develop tools to manage waiting …

Priority criteria developed during a national project were used to conduct an audit of all 662
patients on waiting lists for coronary artery bypass surgery in New Zealand during spring …

The Urinary Incontinence in Adults Guideline Panel facilitated the ready elucidation of its
guideline's management recommendations through the use of an annotated algorithm …