Priority setting for new technologies in medicine: qualitative case study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe priority setting for new technologies in medicine.

Design

Qualitative study using case studies and grounded theory.

Setting

Two committees advising on priorities for new technologies in cancer and cardiac care in Ontario, Canada.

Participants

The two committees and their 26 members.

Main outcome measures

Accounts of priority setting decision making gathered by reviewing documents, interviewing members, and observing meetings.

Results

Six interrelated domains were identified for priority setting for new technologies in medicine: the institutions in which the decision are made, the people who make the decisions, the factors they consider, the reasons for the decisions, the process of decision making, and the appeals mechanism f

SUBMITTER: Singer PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC27534 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature