PMID- 10602156
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20000207
LR  - 20220330
IS  - 0277-6715 (Print)
IS  - 0277-6715 (Linking)
VI  - 18
IP  - 23
DP  - 1999 Dec 15
TI  - Multi-criteria decision making--an approach to setting priorities in health care.
PG  - 3345-54
AB  - The objective of this paper is to present a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) 
      approach to support public health decision making that takes into consideration 
      the fuzziness of the decision goals and the behavioural aspect of the decision 
      maker. The approach is used to analyse the process of health technology 
      procurement in a University Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The method, known 
      as TODIM, relies on evaluating alternatives with a set of decision criteria 
      assessed using an ordinal scale. Fuzziness in generating criteria scores and 
      weights or conflicts caused by dealing with different viewpoints of a group of 
      decision makers (DMs) are solved using fuzzy set aggregation rules. The results 
      suggested that MCDM models, incorporating fuzzy set approaches, should form a set 
      of tools for public health decision making analysis, particularly when there are 
      polarized opinions and conflicting objectives from the DM group.
CI  - Copyright 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
FAU - Nobre, F F
AU  - Nobre FF
AD  - Programa de Engenharia Biomedica - COPPE/UFRJ, Cidade Universitaria - Ilha do 
      Fundao, P.O. Box 68510, 21945-970 - Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil. 
      flavio@peb.ufrj.br
FAU - Trotta, L T
AU  - Trotta LT
FAU - Gomes, L F
AU  - Gomes LF
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Stat Med
JT  - Statistics in medicine
JID - 8215016
SB  - IM
MH  - Brazil
MH  - *Decision Making
MH  - Delivery of Health Care/economics
MH  - Developing Countries
MH  - Fuzzy Logic
MH  - Health Priorities/*economics
MH  - Humans
MH  - Medical Laboratory Science/economics
MH  - *Models, Economic
MH  - Technology, High-Cost/*economics
EDAT- 1999/12/22 00:00
MHDA- 1999/12/22 00:01
CRDT- 1999/12/22 00:00
PHST- 1999/12/22 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1999/12/22 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1999/12/22 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19991215)18:23<3345::AID-SIM321>3.0.CO;2-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19991215)18:23<3345::aid-sim321>3.0.co;2-7 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Stat Med. 1999 Dec 15;18(23):3345-54. doi: 
      10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19991215)18:23<3345::aid-sim321>3.0.co;2-7.