Integrating patient preferences in efficiency frontier analyses using the analytical hierarchy process

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Patient Preference 100%
• Clubfoot 61%
• Health Care Outcome Assessment 59%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 56%
• Ankle 42%
• Orthopedics 40%
• Health Care Costs 40%
• Cost-Benefit Analysis 38%
• Comparative Effectiveness Research 33%
• Foot Orthoses 32%
• Biomedical Technology Assessment 28%
• Biomedical Technology 28%
• Cosmetics 26%
• Decision Support Techniques 26%
• Uncertainty 20%
• Technology 14%
• Equipment and Supplies 13%
• Therapeutics 11%

Social Sciences

• efficiency 63%
• costs 50%
• deformity 37%
• surgery 26%
• methodology 19%
• treatment effectiveness 18%
• technology assessment 15%
• cosmetics 14%
• decision maker 11%
• uncertainty 9%
• health care 9%
• lack 6%
• evaluation 5%
• economics 5%