Setting | Description |
Basic | Core resources or fundamental services are absolutely necessary for any public health/primary health care system to function; basic-level services typically are applied in a single clinical interaction. |
Limited | Second-tier resources or services are intended to produce major improvements in outcome, such as incidence and cost effectiveness, and are attainable with limited financial means and modest infrastructure; limited-level services may involve single or multiple interactions. Universal public health interventions are feasible for a greater percentage of the population than the primary target group. |
Enhanced | Third-tier resources or services are optional but important; enhanced-level resources should produce further improvements in outcome and increase the number and quality of options and individual choice (perhaps ability to track patients and links to registries). |
Maximal* | May use high-resource-setting guidelines. |
High-level/state-of-the-art resources or services may be used or are available in some high-resource countries and/or may be recommended by high-resource-setting guidelines that do not adapt to resource constraints, but that nonetheless should be considered a lower priority than those resources or services listed in the other categories on the basis of extreme cost and/or impracticality for broad use in a resource-limited environment. |
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