title: Community-based decision making and priority setting using the R software: the community priority index.
abstract: This paper outlines how to compute community priority indices in the context of multicriteria decision making in community settings. A simple R function was developed and validated with community needs assessment data. Particularly, the first part of this paper briefly overviews the existing methods for priority setting and reviews the utility of a multicriteria decision-making approach for community-based prioritization. The second part illustrates how community priority indices can be calculated using the freely available R program to handle community data by showing the computational and mathematical steps of CPI (Community Priority Index) with bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals.
authors: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 3701 Kirby Drive, Suite 600, Houston, TX 77098, USA.
authors: Hamisu M
authors: HM
authors: Salihu
authors: REACHUP, Inc., 2902 N. Armenia Avenue, Suite 100, Tampa, FL 33607, USA ; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, 13201 Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, MDC 56, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
authors: Abraham A
authors: AA
authors: Salinas-Miranda
authors: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, 13201 Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, MDC 56, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
authors: Arnut
authors: A
authors: Paothong
authors: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, 13201 Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, MDC 56, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
authors: Wei
authors: W
authors: Wang
authors: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, 13201 Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, MDC 56, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
authors: Lindsey M
authors: LM
authors: King
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D003657:Decision Making; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011634:Public Health; D012984:Software