Treacle and smallpox : two tests for multi-criteria decision analysis models in health technology assessment
Morton, Alec (2017) Treacle and smallpox : two tests for multi-criteria decision analysis models in health technology assessment. Value in Health, 30 (3). pp. 512-515. ISSN 1524-4733
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Abstract
Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is, rightly, receiving increasing attention in Health Technology Assessment. However, a distinguishing feature of the health domain is that technologies must actually improve health, and good performance on other criteria cannot compensate for failure to do so. We argue for two reasonable tests for MCDA models: the treacle test (can a winning intervention be incompletely ineffective?) and the smallpox test (can a winning intervention be for a disease which no one suffers from?). We explore why models might fail such tests (as the models of some existing published studies would do) and offer some suggestions as to how practice should be improved.
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Item type: Article ID code: 58013 Dates: DateEvent31 March 2017Published20 December 2016Published Online2 October 2016AcceptedSubjects: Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management Department: Strathclyde Business School > Management Science
Strategic Research Themes > Health and WellbeingDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 03 Oct 2016 14:05 Last modified: 01 Jul 2024 01:19 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/58013