title: Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis for Health Care Decision Making--An Introduction: Report 1 of the ISPOR MCDA Emerging Good Practices Task Force.
abstract: Health care decisions are complex and involve confronting trade-offs between multiple, often conflicting, objectives. Using structured, explicit approaches to decisions involving multiple criteria can improve the quality of decision making and a set of techniques, known under the collective heading multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA), are useful for this purpose. MCDA methods are widely used in other sectors, and recently there has been an increase in health care applications. In 2014, ISPOR established an MCDA Emerging Good Practices Task Force. It was charged with establishing a common definition for MCDA in health care decision making and developing good practice guidelines for conducting MCDA to aid health care decision making. This initial ISPOR MCDA task force report provides an introduction to MCDA - it defines MCDA; provides examples of its use in different kinds of decision making in health care (including benefit risk analysis, health technology assessment, resource allocation, portfolio decision analysis, shared patient clinician decision making and prioritizing patients' access to services); provides an overview of the principal methods of MCDA; and describes the key steps involved. Upon reviewing this report, readers should have a solid overview of MCDA methods and their potential for supporting health care decision making.
authors.affiliation: School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. Electronic address: p.thokala@sheffield.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Praveen
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Thokala
authors.affiliation: Office of Health Economics, London, UK.
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Devlin
authors.affiliation: Evidera, London, UK.
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Marsh
authors.affiliation: Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Rob
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baltussen
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: Meindert
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boysen
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Policy and Health Economics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE); Syreon Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Zoltan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kalo
authors.affiliation: NDA Group AB, UK and Sweden.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Longrenn
authors.affiliation: Regional Regulatory Affairs, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Antwerp, Belgium.
authors.forename: Filip
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mussen
authors.affiliation: Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control (ARCC), British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, WA, USA; Leslie Diamond Chair in Cancer Survivorship, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Stuart
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Peacock
authors.affiliation: Formulary Development, Premera Blue Cross, Bothell, WA, USA; University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Watkins
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Technology & Services Research, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Maarten
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ijzerman
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D003657:Decision Making; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D010358:Patient Participation; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards
keywords: MCDA; decision making; health care; multiple criteria decision analysis