As America’s healthcare system continues to evolve, it is critical that our perception of care and its value to patients evolve with it. In the past, value assessments have marginalized patients’ ...

Background Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) concepts, models and tools have been used increasingly in health technology assessment (HTA), with several studies pointing out practical and ...

Making decisions in complex contexts is indeed a very challenging endeavour. In many circumstances that is the case of making decision in the scope of Environmental Remediation when technical, ...

R. Brett McQueen, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Colorado, ...

A broad range of reactions – from celebratory to alarmist – describe the workforce reductions and regulatory rollbacks proposed or currently underway at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Numerous empirical studies support the notion that urban built environments function as determinants of health, and society increasingly demands that urban planning and building positively impact ...

Impact of High-Quality Goals-of-Care Discussions on Oncologist Productivity The framework was developed following Evidence and Value: Impact on Decision-Making methodology, and literature was reviewed ...

Decision analysis looks at the paradigm in which an individual decision maker (or decision group) contemplates a choice of action in an uncertain environment. The theory of decision analysis is ...