The feasibility of sophisticated multicriteria support for clinical decisions

摘要

BackgroundMulti-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods are well-suited to serve as the foundation for clinical decision support systems. To do so, however, they need to be appropriate for use in busy clinical settings. We compared decision making processes and outcomes of patient-level analyses done with a range of multi-criteria methods that vary in ease of use and intensity of decision support, two factors that could affect their ease of implementation into practice.