Prioritization in Medicine

The gap between a rising demand for health care services on the one side and scarce resources on the other,is leading to a growing pressure on decision-making processes. Hence, prioritization in medicinehas becomean increasingly important issueforassuring stability of health systems and improvingthe capability of health care. The present volume addresses normative dimensions of methodological and theoretical approaches, the legal basis behind priority setting as well as international experiences concerning the normative framework and the process of priority setting. It also examines specific criteria for prioritization and discusses economic evaluations. Contributing authors from a broad range of scientific disciplines discuss prioritization within an internationaldialogue.