RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Rationing: a transatlantic perspective.
JF British Journal of General Practice
JO Br J Gen Pract
FD British Journal of General Practice
SP 543
OP 545
VO 46
IS 410
A1 S Purdy
YR 1996
UL http://bjgp.org/content/46/410/543.abstract
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.