Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Updating of Quality Indicators for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Comprehensive Care Units in Spain.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Management of inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] is complex and IBD Comprehensive Care Units [ICCUs] facilitate the delivery of quality care to IBD patients. The objective of this study was to update the existing set of quality indicators [QIs] for ICCUs, based on a nationwide quality certification programme carried out in Spain, from a multi-stakeholder perspective and using multicriteria decision analysis [MCDA] methodology.

Methods

An MCDA comprising three different phases was conducted. In phase 1, a systematic literature review was performed, and after validation by a scientific committee comprising 11 experts, a preliminary set of QIs was developed. In phase 2, a larger group of 49 experts determined the relevance and relative importance of each QI by

SUBMITTER: Calvet X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9683078 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature