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Review
. 2020 Aug 31;8(1):1810905.
doi: 10.1080/20016689.2020.1810905.

Organizational aspect in healthcare decision-making: a literature review

Amélie Dubromel  1 , Marie-Audrey Duvinage-Vonesch  2 , Loïc Geffroy  3 , Claude Dussart  1   3
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Organizational aspect in healthcare decision-making: a literature review

Amélie Dubromel et al. J Mark Access Health Policy. .

Abstract

Background: Organizational aspect is rarely considered in healthcare. However, it is gradually seen as one of the key aspects of the decision-making process as well as clinical and economic dimensions. Our primary objective was to identify criteria already used to assess the organizational impact of medical innovations. Our secondary objective was to structure them into an inventory to support decision-makers to select the relevant criteria for their complex decision-making issues.

Materials and methods: A search using the Medline database was conducted in June 2019. The records published between January, 1990 and December, 2018 were identified. The publications cited by the authors of the included articles and the websites of health technology assessment agencies, units or learned societies identified during the search were also consulted. The identified criteria were structured in an inventory.

Results: We selected 107 records of a wide range of evidence mostly published after the 2000s. We identified 636 criteria that we classified into five categories: people, task, structure, technology, and surroundings.

Conclusion: Criteria selection is a crucial step in any multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). This work is the first step in the development of a validated MCDA method to assess the organizational impact of medical innovations.

Keywords: Review; decision-making; health technology assessment; multi-criteria decision analysis; organizational aspect.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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