Health care decisions are complex and involve confronting trade-offs between multiple,
often conflicting objectives. Using structured, explicit approaches to decisions involving …

Background Spending on new healthcare technologies increases net population health
when the benefits of a new technology are greater than their opportunity costs—the benefits …

A growing number of health care systems internationally use formal economic evaluation
methods to support health care funding decisions. Recently, a range of organizations have …

Background Budgetary constraints and the rising cost of new innovative medicines are the
key challenges for access to medicines. Multiple research studies explored diverse …

In the UK few if any regular processes explicitly address comparisons of value for money
between spending in different government departments, despite the existence of …

Background Multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) has appeared as a methodology to
address limitations of economic evaluation in health technology assessment (HTA), however …

Background Healthcare decision makers need to make trade-offs between different
elements of value of new treatments. Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) provides a …

Background: The primary aim of the research in the present study was to determine the
effectiveness of health care in classifying health care financing systems from a sample of …

Background All health care systems face the need to find the resources to meet new
demands such as a new, cost-increasing health technology. In England and Wales, when a …

Background. Multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) has been identified as a prospective
methodology for assisting decision makers in evaluating the benefits of new medicines in …