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'Real-world' health care priority setting using explicit decision criteria: a systematic review of the literature.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review to identify research priority setting in Black and minority ethnic health and evaluate their processes.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
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- Rationing in an Era of Multiple Tight Constraints: Is Cost-Utility Analysis Still Fit for Purpose?Applied health economics and health policy · 2024Article
- Priority setting in the German healthcare system: results from a discrete choice experiment.International journal of health economics and management · 2023Article
- A new emergency response of spherical intelligent fuzzy decision process to diagnose of COVID19.Soft computing · 2023Article
- 'Real-world' priority setting for service improvement in English primary care: a decentred approach.Public management review · 2023Article
- The sociology of rationing: Towards increased interdisciplinary dialogue - A critical interpretive literature review.Sociology of health & illness · 2022Review
- Under careful construction: combining findings, arguments, and values into robust health care coverage decisions.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Aligning quality improvement efforts and policy goals in a national integrated health system.Health services research · 2022Article
- Advancing the WHO-INTEGRATE Framework as a Tool for Evidence-Informed, Deliberative Decision-Making Processes: Exploring the Views of Developers and Users of WHO Guidelines.International journal of health policy and management · 2022Article
- Ethico-legal regional differences in European neurosurgical practice: Part 1-pre-COVID-19 era.Brain & spine · 2022Article
- Involving stakeholders in research priority setting: a scoping review.Research involvement and engagement · 2021Article
- More than cost-effectiveness? Applying a second-stage filter to improve policy decision making.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2021Article
- Determining the value of TB active case-finding: current evidence and methodological considerations.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2021Article
- Describing practices of priority setting and resource allocation in publicly funded health care systems of high-income countries.BMC health services research · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundHealth care decision making requires making resource allocation decisions among programs, services, and technologies that all compete for a finite resource pool. Methods of priority setting that use explicitly defined criteria can aid health care decision makers in arriving at funding decisions in a transparent and systematic way. The purpose of this paper is to review the published literature and examine the use of criteria-based methods in 'real-world' health care allocation decisions.
methodsA systematic review of the published literature was conducted to find examples of 'real-world' priority setting exercises that used explicit criteria to guide decision-making.
resultsWe found thirty-three examples in the peer-reviewed and grey literature, using a variety of methods and criteria. Program effectiveness, equity, affordability, cost-effectiveness, and the number of beneficiaries emerged as the most frequently-used decision criteria. The relative importance of criteria in the 'real-world' trials differed from the frequency in preference elicitation exercises. Neither the decision-making method used, nor the relative economic strength of the country in which the exercise took place, appeared to have a strong effect on the type of criteria chosen.
conclusionsHealth care decisions are made based on criteria related both to the health need of the population and the organizational context of the decision. Following issues related to effectiveness and affordability, ethical issues such as equity and accessibility are commonly identified as important criteria in health care resource allocation decisions.
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