Choice of Technique

Michael Kaser
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Chapter 25 in The Economics of Health and Medical Care, 1974, pp 510-537 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A characteristic of medical care supply is the degree of freedom in choice of technique open to the supplier, normally a physician, within the limits or physical availabilities by place and by time in relation to the patient. In view of the rapidly increasing volume of alternative technologies in general, and of information on a patient’s condition in particular cases, the clinical evaluation of therapies (efficacy) is urgently required with respect to resources applied (efficiency) and to the resultant health outcome (effectiveness), Health outcomes are not thereby rendered commensurate and remain, in practice, selected by the physician, whose clinical freedom is nevertheless guided towards a cost minimand suitable for a National Health Service-type system.

Keywords: Public Health Programme; Sickness Benefit; Technical Effect; Private Incentive; British National Health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1974
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-63660-0_25

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