Priority setting in health care using multi-attribute utility theory and programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA)

Stuart J. Peacock, Jeff Richardson (), Rob Carter and Diana Edwards

Social Science & Medicine, 2007, vol. 64, issue 4, 897-910

Abstract: Programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA) is becoming an increasingly popular tool in setting health service priorities. This paper presents a novel multi-attribute utility (MAU) approach to setting health service priorities using PBMA. This approach includes identifying the attributes of the MAU function; describing and scaling attributes; quantifying trade-offs between attributes; and combining single conditional utility functions into the MAU function. We illustrate the MAU approach using a PBMA case study in mental health services from the Community Health Sector in metropolitan South Australia.

Keywords: Priority; setting; Programme; budgeting; Marginal; analysis; Decision; analysis; Multi-attribute; utility; theory; Mental; health; Australia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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