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

Decision making techniques have been widely used in healthcare and medical industry.
This study systematically reviews the conventional and fuzzy decision-making techniques …

Understanding the preferences of patients and health professionals is useful for health
policy and planning. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are a quantitative technique for …

Aim: Criteria weighting is a key element of multicriteria decision analysis that is becoming
extensively used in healthcare decision-making. In our narrative review we describe the …

The objective of this study is to support those undertaking a multi-criteria decision analysis
(MCDA) by reviewing the approaches adopted in healthcare MCDAs to date, how these …

Objectives Resource allocation is a challenging issue faced by health policy decisionmakers
requiring careful consideration of many factors. Objectives of this study were to identify …

ABSTRACT Objectives: Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) in health economics commonly
present choice sets in an unlabeled form. Labeled choice sets are less abstract and may …

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is increasingly important in public health decision making,
including in low-and middle-income countries. The decision makers' valuation of a unit of …

Background. Health care decision making is complex and requires efficient and explicit
processes to ensure transparency and consistency of factors considered. Objectives. To pilot …

The objective of this study is to review applications of multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA)
methods to provide structure for and practical insights on how MCDA methods are applied in …