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| Title |
Does cancer deserve special treatment when health technologies are prioritized?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, November 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/2045-4015-2-45 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Paul Hansen |
| Abstract |
Despite most new cancer treatments having relatively high costs and low health benefits, they are often funded ahead of treatments for other illnesses. And yet, according to the article by Dan Greenberg and colleagues, most Israeli oncologists and family physicians think that new cancer treatments should not receive such a high priority and that cost-effectiveness data should be used to support funding decisions. In this commentary, I point out that the increasing pressure worldwide when prioritizing health technologies to widen the scope of the benefits that are recognized beyond just narrowly-defined health benefits would almost certainly include the special characteristics of cancer. Future research would be worthwhile into how the criteria for prioritizing technologies should be incorporated into prioritization frameworks in practice, including, in particular, how to resolve the inherent trade-offs.This is a commentary on http://www.ijhpr.org/content/2/2/44/ |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 3 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| India | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 9 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 2 | 20% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 1 | 10% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 1 | 10% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 4 | 40% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 30% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 10% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 1 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 4 | 40% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 February 2014.
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#12,888,337
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#187
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#156,804
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Outputs of similar age from Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
#5
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