Make decisions and allocate resources based on decision-makers’ informed judgements.
All health systems have to decide how best to use their resources, which usually requires confronting trade-offs between multiple criteria from multiple stakeholder perspectives.
Such decision-making is increasingly supported by Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM, also known as Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, MCDA) – e.g. as surveyed in this recent encyclopedia article.
1000minds solutions, including group decision-making with as many participants as you like – 10s, 100s or 1000s, depending on your application – are widely used in the following important areas.
During the Covid-19 crisis …
1000minds is being used to create a tool for prioritizing Covid-19 patients for intensive care (e.g. ventilators). News »
We have examples of tools for prioritizing Covid-19 patients that you can adapt, or create your own tools from scratch. We’re available to help too (more »).
Patient prioritization
- Prioritization of patients for access to elective (non-urgent) health care (more »)
Processes for creating prioritization tools »
Health technology prioritization
- Prioritization of spending on pharmaceuticals, medical devices, equipment, procedures, etc (more »)
Prioritization framework based on value for money »
Disease classification and diagnosis
- Identification of criteria for classifying and diagnosing diseases (more »)
Disease R&D prioritization
- Prioritizing infectious diseases for Research & Development (more »)
Clinical guidelines
- Identification and prioritization of treatment guidelines (more »)
Health-related quality of life
- 1000minds supports research into the measurement and valuation of HRQoL (more »)
Other health applications
- Planning for and responding to disasters and pandemics
- Assessing students for admission to medical school
- Ranking health professionals for jobs (e.g. junior doctors for hospitals)
- Allocating hospital budgets and prioritizing business projects
- Ranking new medical innovations
- Allocating research funding, etc
