Rationing Care

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ONLINECMECNESafetyCommunicationEthics/ProfessionalismCollaborative and Team-Based CME/CEPSRM - Patient Safety/Risk ManagementComplimentary - No Fee

Thursday, June 4, 2020, 3:13 PM - Sunday, June 4, 2023, 4:13 PM, Online, Philadelphia, PA

This course provides an overview of how clinicians and policymakers have approached the rationing of health care resources, as well as an ethical framework that can inform present and future rationing and resource allocation decisions.

During the course, we delineate a system for ethically allocating resources based on 4 principles: 

- Treating people equally. 
- Favoring the worst off. 
- Maximizing total benefits. 
- Promoting and rewarding social usefulness. 

Content last reviewed: June 4, 2020

1. Define rationing and resource allocation in a health care context
2. Identify and evaluate principles underlying health care rationing decisions
3. Explain the Complete Lives System for making rationing and decisions
4. Explain how the Complete Lives System can be applied to health care policy decisions

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (2.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance / Participation (2.00 hours), NCPD Hours (ANCC) (2.00 hours), Patient Safety/Risk Management PSRM (2.00 hours)

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and co-director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the special advisory to the director-general of the World Health Organization.

From January 2009 to January 2011, Dr. Emanuel served as a special advisor on health policy to the director of the Office of Management and Budget and National Economic Council. Prior to that he was the founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health from 1997 to August of 2011.

Dr. Emanuel received his MD from Harvard Medical School and his PhD in political philosophy from Harvard University. He has published over 300 articles mainly on health care reform, research ethics, and end-of-life care. He has also authored or edited 13 books, including Reinventing American Health Care (2014), Prescription for the Future (2018), and Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care? (2020). Dr. Emanuel is the most widely cited bioethicist in history.

Dr. Emanuel also serves as a venture partner at Oak HC/FT in addition to serving as a contributor for the New York Times and CNN. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the Association of American Physicians, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal College of Medicine. He recently served on the Biden administration transition team’s COVID-19 task force. Dr. Emanuel is a 2018 recipient of the Dan David Prize in the category of Bioethics, an honor recognizing innovative and interdisciplinary research that cuts across traditional boundaries and paradigms.