Under careful construction:Combining findings, arguments, and values into robust health care coverage decisions

Background: Health care coverage decisions deal with health care technology provision or reimbursement at a national level. The coverage decision report, i.e., the publicly available document giving reasons for the decision, may contain various elements: quantitative calculations like cost and clinical effectiveness analyses and formalised and non-formalised qualitative considerations. We know little about the process of combining these heterogeneous elements into robust decisions. Methods: This study describes a model for combining different elements in coverage decisions. We build on two qua... Mehr ...