Abstract:OBJECTIVES: Decision‐making is a process of assessing alternatives and their attributes versus an objective(s), trading‐off various advantages and disadvantages, and ultimately synthesizing the information to culminate at a central point: a decision. The aim of the workshop is to outline a systematic process for group decision‐making. A formulary decision incorporating clinical, economic and humanistic data from the perspective of a hospital committee will be used as an illustration.
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“…In contrast, formal multiattribute decision models are systematic (the attributes, the methods of rating, the decision rule(s) are specified) and public (the ratings and rules are available to all). Even so, the role of MADM models of the kind described here is not to replace clinical judgment, but rather to inform and support clinical judgment, whether at the individual patient level or at the collective (eg, formulary committee [23]) level. Models of this kind can also be used as a guide by the nonspecialist, who cannot have in mind a detailed awareness of the characteristics Fig.…”
“…In contrast, formal multiattribute decision models are systematic (the attributes, the methods of rating, the decision rule(s) are specified) and public (the ratings and rules are available to all). Even so, the role of MADM models of the kind described here is not to replace clinical judgment, but rather to inform and support clinical judgment, whether at the individual patient level or at the collective (eg, formulary committee [23]) level. Models of this kind can also be used as a guide by the nonspecialist, who cannot have in mind a detailed awareness of the characteristics Fig.…”
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