Published Jan 2016
Citation
Thokala P, Devlin, N, Marsh K, et al. Multiple criteria decision analysis for health care decision making—an introduction: report 1 of the ISPOR MCDA Emerging Good Practices Task Force. Value Health. 2016;19(1):1-13.
Abstract
Health care decisions are complex and involve confronting trade-offs
between multiple, often conflicting, objectives. Using structured,
explicit approaches to decisions involving multiple criteria can
improve the quality of decision making and a set of techniques,
known under the collective heading multiple criteria decision analysis
(MCDA), are useful for this purpose. MCDA methods are widely used
in other sectors, and recently there has been an increase in health
care applications.
In 2014, ISPOR established an MCDA Emerging Good
Practices Task Force. It was charged with establishing a common
definition for MCDA in health care decision making and developing
good practice guidelines for conducting MCDA to aid health care
decision making. This initial ISPOR MCDA task force report provides
an introduction to MCDA - it defines MCDA; provides examples of its
use in different kinds of decision making in health care (including
benefit risk analysis, health technology assessment, resource allocation,
portfolio decision analysis, shared patient clinician decision
making and prioritizing patients’ access to services); provides an
overview of the principal methods of MCDA; and describes the key
steps involved. Upon reviewing this report, readers should have a
solid overview of MCDA methods and their potential for supporting
health care decision making.
Keywords: decision making, health care, MCDA, multiple criteria
decision analysis.
Copyright © 2016, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR). Published by Elsevier Inc.
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