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3199. MCDA for Health Technology Assessment: Trends and Challenges

Invited abstract in session WC-47: MCDA in medicine, stream Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis.

Wednesday, 12:30-14:00
Room: 50 (building: 324)

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Yorgos Goletsis
Department of Economics, University of Ioannina
2. Garoufalia Naka
Department of Economics, University of Ioannina
3. Kostas Athanasakis
Department of Public Health Policy, University of West Attica
4. Michalis Doumpos
School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete

Abstract

Priority setting in healthcare’s financing is a multidimensional problem as there are conflicts among different stakeholders’ groups (patients, scientific specialists, healthcare providers, manufacturers, insurers). Allocating the limited resources and funding to (new) medical technology requires an evaluation of the multiple types of value medical technology (i.e. tools, tests, devices, drugs, vaccines, processes, etc.) can occur, which extend the traditional economic evaluation which is often limited to the evaluation of costs and a single health related outcome (such as QALYs, DALYs, etc.).

Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) can expand the current more or less standard assessment process by introducing multiple (and often conflicting criteria), the preferences of multiple stakeholders, including the society.

For this reason, in our paper we are reviewing the relevant literature and through a detailed review and bibliometric analysis of 226 papers we identify the theoretical foundations and trends in the relevant literature. Despite the relevant progress over the last years, MCDA for Health Technology Assessment needs to address several challenges before being widespread. Such challenges could be conceptual, methodological or organizational. Overcoming these challenges can help embedding the multicriteria concepts and methods in healthcare technology evaluations and decision making.

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Status: accepted

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