As health care institutions near the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, they are grappling with how to proactively and ethically distribute scarce health care resources to treat the sick. The news is rife ...

This article was originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle on March 29, 2017. Ryan F. Holmes is the assistant director of health care ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. The ...

Researchers argue that, in some situations where machine-learning models are used to allocate scarce resources or opportunities, randomizing decisions in a structured way may lead to fairer outcomes.

An organization’s business environment is at least partially defined by the pressures and forces can affect the way it operates, along with its ability to acquire scarce resources. Scarce resources ...

The pandemic put a spotlight on the challenges that health systems face when deciding how to allocate scarce resources during a time of crisis. To better understand differing opinions on this issue, ...

As COVID-19 case numbers increase, we are getting closer to the point where the number of critically ill patients will exceed the resources available to care for them. In particular, we may see ...

JMW focus on the "QALY trap" in their critique of CEAs. I also have a more fundamental problem with QALY estimates in CEA or quantitative decision analysis. Even when estimated by means of Time Trade ...