Ranking Decision-Making Criteria for Early Adoption of Innovative Surgical Technologies.

ABSTRACT: There is no decision-making framework in the early-adoption stage of novel surgical technologies, putting the quality of health care and resource allocation of the health care system at risk. To investigate relevant weighted criteria that decision-makers may use to make an informed decision for the early adoption of innovative surgical technologies. This multi-institutional decision analytical modeling study used a mixed-methods multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) and had 2 phases. First, a panel of 12 experts validated decision criteria in the literature and identified additional criteria. Second, 33 Canadian experts prioritized the main criteria (domains) using the composition pairwise-comparison weight-elicitation method (analytical hierarchy process model) and ranked their subcriter

SUBMITTER: Shoman H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10654796 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature