Difficult decisions in times of constraint: Criteria based Resource Allocation in the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mitton, Craig ^a,b   Dionne, Francois ^a,b   Damji, Rizwan ^c   Campbell, Duncan ^c   Bryan, Stirling ^a,b  

^a VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

disinvestment; health care decision making; priority setting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUDGET; CANADA; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INTERVIEW; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; BUDGETS; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; ECONOMIC RECESSION; HEALTH PRIORITIES; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 79960564168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-169     Document Type: Article

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