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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Priority setting of health interventions: the need for multi-criteria decision analysis. | Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation BioMed Central Open Access Methodology Priority setting of health interventions the need for multi-criteria decision analysis Rob Baltussen 1 2 and Louis Niessen1 3 Address institute for Medical Technology Assessment iMTA ErasmusMC Rotterdam Rotterdam The Netherlands 2Department of Public Health University Medical Centre Nijmegen Nijmegen The Netherlands and 3Department of Health Policy and Management ErasmusMC Rotterdam The Netherlands Email Rob Baltussen - r.baltussen@erasmusmc.nl Louis Niessen - l.niessen@erasmusmc.nl Corresponding author Published 21 August 2006 Received 01 March 2006 Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2006 4 14 doi l0.ll86 l478-7547-4-l 4 Accepted 21 August 2006 This article is available from http www.resource-allocation.cOm content 4 l l4 2006 Baltussen and Niessen licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Priority setting of health interventions is often ad-hoc and resources are not used to an optimal extent. Underlying problem is that multiple criteria play a role and decisions are complex. Interventions may be chosen to maximize general population health to reduce health inequalities of disadvantaged or vulnerable groups ad or to respond to life-threatening situations all with respect to practical and budgetary constraints. This is the type of problem that policy makers are typically bad at solving rationally unaided. They tend to use heuristic or intuitive approaches to simplify complexity and in the process important information is ignored. Next policy makers may select interventions for only political motives. This indicates the need for rational and transparent approaches to priority setting. Over the past decades a number of .
