Study | Country | Setting | Weighting method | Method | Type of decision |
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[22] | Australia | Hospital | Mixture of several different methods (ratio, rating scale) | PBMA | Increased resource allocation for highly-ranked programs |
[23] | Nepal | National level | Discrete Choice Experiment | MCDA | Ranking of 34 possible interventions |
[24] | UK | Primary Care Trust | Allocation of points method | PBMA | Prioritizing 4 programs for diabetes care |
[25] | New Zealand | Public Health System | No weights described | PBMA | 5 investments, 5 disinvestments |
[26] | Norway | Norwegian Health Ministry | Discrete Choice Experiment | MCDA | Ranking of 21 different alternatives among 5 health domains |
[27] | Canada | Health Authority | Weights, method not described | PBMA | 18 investments, 13 disinvestments, $4.5 m reallocation |
[18] | Canada | Health Authority | 40 points could be allocated to any of 40 items | PBMA | $16 m reallocated, $1 m released through service reduction |
[28] | Canada | Not specified | Weights, method not clear | MCDA | Creation of priorities list |
[29] | New Zealand | Health Authority | No weights described | PBMA | Summary of decisions |
[30] | Canada | Municipal District | No weights described | PBMA | Program alternatives prioritized |
[31] | USA | Health Authority | Percentages (allocation? Ratio?) | MCDAa | Ranking of 47 programs funded by the region |
[32] | UK | 2 Primary Care Trusts | Allocation of points method | PBMA | 66 proposals approved that met criteria out of 134 submitted |
[33] | Ghana | National level | Discrete Choice Experiment | MCDA | Ranking of 11 health programs |
[34] | Canada | Provincial level | Discrete Choice Experiment | MCDA | Development of decision tool |
[35] | UK | Primary Care Trust | Mix of ratio (for main criteria) and points allocation (for sub-criteria) | PBMA | £3.37 m disinvested, £2 m used for defecit reduction |
[36] | Taiwan | National Health Insurance | Grey incidence mathematical expression | MCDA | Access to care optimization |
[37] | Korea | Hospital | Goal programming multicriteria decision modelling | MCDA | Staffing and other logistic optimization for hospital resource allocation to meet goals |
[38] | Tanzania | National Ministry of Health | No weights described | MCDA | Prioritization of 9 programs |
[39] | UK | Department of (Public) Health | Discrete Choice Experiment | MCDA | Ranking of 14 different preventative health measures |
[40] | South Africa | Department of Health | Rating Scale | MCDA | Evaluation of LBC as cervical cancer screening tool |
[41] | Canada | Health Authority | 40 points could be allocated to any of 40 items | PBMA | $40 m in resources released, used for defecit and reinvestment |
[42] | Canada | Health Authority | Allocation of points method | MCDA | 9 alternative programs ranked |
[43] | Canada | Health Authority | Allocation of points method | PBMA | 44 disinvestments, $4.9 million in cost reduction |
[44] | Canada | University faculty of medicine | Allocation of points method | PBMA | 55 disinvestments, $2.7 million in cost reduction |
[45] | UK | Health Authority | No weights described | MCDA | Construction of optimization model; mapping of disinvestments |
[46] | Canada | Surgical Department in Hospital | No weights described | MCDA | Evaluation of 53 health technologies |
[47] | Canada | Surgical Services in Health Region | No weights described | MCDA | Development of decision tool |
[48] | UK | Primary Care Trust | Allocation of points method | PBMA | Ranking of 7 programs with PBMA, then with ad hoc approach |
[49] | Canada | Health Authority | No weights described | PBMA | Additional funding of $200,000 |
[50] | UK | Primary Care Trust | Allocation of points method | MCDA | Ranking of 4 program alternatives |
[51] | UK | Primary Care Trust | Allocation of points method | MCDA | Ranking of 6 different alternatives |
[52] | Thailand | National level | Discrete Choice Experiment | MCDA | Ranking of 40 HIV/AIDS interventions |
[53] | Thailand | National level | No weights described | MCDA | Ranking of 17 possible services for inclusion in national insurance scheme |