Controversies in Treatment: How can hospitals ration drugs? Drug rationing in a teaching hospital: a method to assign priorities

When drug budgets are unable to accommodate all new drug requests, a arises when additional funds become available -- which drugs should priority? The drug committee at Royal Adelaide Hospital devised a, which they describe here, to rank drug requests to obtain the greatest for the most patients for each dollar spent. We asked a health, a clinical pharmacologist, and a moral philosopher to give their on this form of rationing, and we then gave the authors an to respond.