ArticleHealth care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy2019
Why We Don't Need "Unmet Needs"! On the Concepts of Unmet Need and Severity in Health-Care Priority Setting.
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- Needs assessment in long-term care: expression of national principles for priority setting in service allocation.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Should Severity Assessments in Healthcare Priority Setting be Risk- and Time-Sensitive?Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2023Article
- Needs Assessment and the Identification of Palliative Care Dimensions of the Essential Service Package for the Elderly with Alzheimer's Disease: A Mixed Exploratory Study.Florence Nightingale journal of nursing · 2023Article
- Health-Related Unmet Needs of Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Nationwide Representative Descriptive Study in Korea.Annals of geriatric medicine and research · 2023Article
- Socio-economic factors associated with mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Profile of patients with inflammatory bowel disease in conjunction with unmet needs and decision-making for choosing a new biologic therapy: a baseline analysis of the VEDOInternational journal of colorectal disease · 2021Article
- Determining the reasons for unmet healthcare needs in South Korea: a secondary data analysis.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2021Article
- Explaining Caregivers' Perceptions of Palliative Care Unmet Needs in Iranian Alzheimer's Patients: A Qualitative Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Severity as a Priority Setting Criterion: Setting a Challenging Research Agenda.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2020Article
- A Qualitative Exploration of Caregiving in Advanced Dementia: Caregiver Perspectives on Unmet Needs in Low- and Middle-income Setting.Indian journal of palliative careArticle
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Abstract
In health care priority setting different criteria are used to reflect the relevant values that should guide decision-making. During recent years there has been a development of value frameworks implying the use of multiple criteria, a development that has not been accompanied by a structured conceptual and normative analysis of how different criteria relate to each other and to underlying normative considerations. Examples of such criteria are unmet need and severity. In this article these crucial criteria are conceptually clarified and analyzed in relation to each other. We argue that disease-severity and condition-severity should be distinguished and we find the latter concept better reflects underlying normative values. We further argue that unmet need does not fulfil an independent and relevant role in relation to condition-severity except for in some limited situations when having to distinguish between conditions of equal severity (and where other features also equals each other).
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