Differentiating innovation priorities among stakeholder in hospital care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Decisions to adopt a particular innovation may vary between stakeholders because individual stakeholders may disagree on the costs and benefits involved. This may translate to disagreement between stakeholders on priorities in the implementation process, possibly explaining the slow diffusion of innovations in health care. In this study, we explore the differences in stakeholder preferences for innovations, and quantify the difference in stakeholder priorities regarding costs and benefits.

Methods

The decision support technique called the analytic hierarchy process was used to quantify the preferences of stakeholders for nine information technology (IT) innovations in hospital care. The selection of the innovations was based on a literature review and expert judgm

SUBMITTER: Lambooij MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3751765 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature