An empirical ethics study of the coherence of NICE technology appraisal policy and its implications for moral justification

Abstract Background As the UK’s main healthcare priority-setter, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has good reason to want to demonstrate that its decisions are morally justified. In doing so, it has tended to rely on the moral plausibility of its principle of cost-effecti...

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Main Authors: Victoria Charlton, Michael DiStefano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-03-01
Series:BMC Medical Ethics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-024-01016-0