Priority setting for new technologies in medicine: a transdisciplinary study.
BACKGROUND
Decision makers in health care organizations struggle with how to set priorities for new technologies in medicine. Traditional approaches to priority setting for new technologies in medicine are insufficient and there is no widely accepted model that can guide decision makers.


CONCLUSIONS
Daniels and Sabin have developed an ethically based account about how priority setting decisions should be made. We have developed an empirically based account of how priority setting decisions are made. In this paper, we integrate these two accounts into a transdisciplinary model of priority setting for new technologies in medicine that is both ethically and empirically based.


CONCLUSIONS
We have developed a transdisciplinary model of priority setting that provides guidance to decision makers that they can operationalize to help address priority setting problems in their institution.
University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, 88 College St, Toronto, Canada M5G-1L4. jegibson@chass.utoronto.ca
Jennifer L
JL
Gibson
Douglas K
DK
Martin
Peter A
PA
Singer
D032921:Consensus; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D006292:Health Priorities / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000941:ethics; D017146:Models, Organizational; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012935:Social Justice; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012945:Social Values; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000941:ethics*; D014481:United States