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Table 3 Strategies for improvement

From: Priority setting in the provincial health services authority: survey of key decision makers

Increase transparency and accountability

• Make the decision making process more transparent and accountable to internal and external stakeholders

Create explicit process

• Align process with organizational context and account for politics

 

• Clearly communicate vision of the process to all stakeholders

 

• Define goals, outcomes, and benchmarks for success incorporating the Strategic Plan

Initiate cultural change

• Create time-sensitive, evidence-driven process

 

• Apply the process in a consistent manner

 

• Provide education to create a culture of explicit priority setting

Increase stakeholder involvement

• Include public opinion at a general level and provide management training for physicians

Enhance fairness

• Create explicit appeals process for priority setting decisions