Priority setting in critical care: a multicriteria approach to ranking access to Intensive Care Unit beds.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a situation in public health services where there is a high demand for services but not enough capacity to meet that demand. Within the critical care landscape in Brazil, there exists a significant disparity: of the total of 45,848 beds in intensive care units, only 49% are accessible to the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS), while the remaining 51% are exclusively allocated to a mere 23% of the population. Therefore, multicriteria decision analysis has the potential to be utilized as a tool in the decision-making process since it has been stated as a tool that promotes transparency and brings rationality to the decision-making process. The objective of this study was to create a multi-criteria model that can assist in the allocation of beds i

SUBMITTER: Dos Santos AFA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12495819 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature