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Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: What it is and how can it be used

Organizer: The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)

Date/Location:  February 2, 2012 (Ottawa)

Contact: http://www.cadth.ca/en/events/2012-cadth-symposium/call-for-abstracts

Topics:

  • An overview of MCDA and program budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA).

  • Guidance on using The MCDA process in your decision-making context.

  • Case studies demonstrating practical applications of MCDA and PBMA.

  • Hands-on simulations of the use of MCDA in a real-world health care decision process.

 

2012 CADTH Symposium 

Organizer:   The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)

Date/Location:  April 15 – 17, 2012 (Ottawa)

Contact:  http://www.cadth.ca/en/events/2012-cadth-symposium/call-for-abstracts

Topics:

• What are the barriers to evidence use and how are decision makers in health ministries, regional health authorities, hospitals and bedsides surmounting these barriers?

• How can patients, the public, industry and other stakeholders play a role in achieving optimal use of health technologies?

• Are there effective ways of filling knowledge gaps and incorporating real world evidence to support optimal technology use?

• What needs to be done to build on the progress that has been made in Canada since the introduction of Health Technology Assessment some 20 years ago?

 

 

 

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