title: Prioritized list of health services in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
abstract: We aimed to provide a prioritized list of preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and their appropriate classification based on a cost-benefit analysis. Functional benchmarking was used to select a rationing model. Teams of qualified specialists working in community hospitals scored procedures from CPT according to their cost and benefit elements. The prioritized list of services model of Oregon, United States of America was selected as the functional benchmark. In contrast to its benchmark, our country's prioritized list of services is primarily designed to help the government in policy-making with the rationing of health care resources, especially for hospitals.
authors.affiliation: Teheran University of Medical Sciences, Teheran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Larijani
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ameli
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Alizadeh
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Mirsharifi
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D019985:Benchmarking / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003906:Developing Countries; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006292:Health Priorities / Q000145:classification* / Q000191:economics; D006302:Health Services Research; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical