[Research association "allocation" - decision between ethics and economy: which patients get costly therapies?].

Expensive medical therapies like intensive care medicine and interventional cardiology should be used for those patients with the greatest benefit. Prof. Dr. med. Georg Marckmann is the coordinator of the project "Forschungsverbund Allokation", which was established to examine how to ration medical therapies in an economic and ethical way. The aim of the study is to create standards to take the burden from the physicians and enable decisions about the use of expensive therapies on a higher level.