MCDA-based deliberation to value health states: lessons learned from a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health economists have shown a growing interest in deliberation and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) as possible pathways to transparently integrate value judgments in cost-utility analyses. In line with these developments, this study piloted a consensus process to derive a German value set for the Short-Form Six-Dimension (SF-6D). In a conference setting, a group was tasked to deliberate on scores and weights for the SF-6D from the perspective of a self-determined and independent life.

Methods

The one-day consensus conference was based on a deliberative process in combination with the MCDA method MACBETH (Measuring Attractiveness by a Categorical Based Evaluation Technique). According to MACBETH, participants were asked to qualitatively rate pairwise compa

SUBMITTER: Gansen F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6604444 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature