title: Quality of care and cost containment in the U.S. and U.K.
abstract: Many activities of doctors in the acute hospital sector do not improve patient outcome because they are inappropriate. Curtailing interventions that are unnecessary (because the patient is not bad enough) or are unsuccessful (because the condition is too advanced) could both save resources and improve care. Rational rationing depends on knowledge about the expected benefits of various technologies when used in different clinical circumstances.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jennett
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D018579:Patient Selection; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D011788:Quality of Life; D040841:Resource Allocation; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States