Research Article
Using Multicriteria Decision Analysis to Support Research Priority Setting in Biomedical Translational Research Projects
Table 1
Scoring of the decision alternatives against the evaluation criteria.
| | | Preference direction | Primary prevention | Secondary prevention | Tertiary microvascular prevention | Tertiary macrovascular prevention |
| | Reduction in downstream healthcare costs | Increasing | € 658M | € 0 | € 73M | € 312M | | Added quality-adjusted survival | Increasing | € 280K | € 0 | € 1K | € 80K | | Cost of related intervention | Decreasing | € 792 | € 663 | € 155 | € 561 | | Feasibility of treat-all option | | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | | Performance of existing tests | | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | | Ease of implementation | | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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