PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - S Purdy
TI  - Rationing: a transatlantic perspective.
DP  - 1996 Sep 01
TA  - British Journal of General Practice
PG  - 543--545
VI  - 46
IP  - 410
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/46/410/543.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/46/410/543.full
SO  - Br J Gen Pract1996 Sep 01; 46
AB  - Despite the differing mechanisms of health care delivery and financing in the United Kingdom and the United States many of the issues faced by the two countries are similar, most notably the increasing financial pressures. In both countries there have been recent changes in the allocation of resources and the mechanisms of decision making. Different criteria for determining resource allocation have been tried in the two health care systems. These developments change long traditions of rationing decisions at the individual patient level in the US, and of centralised government decision making in the UK.