Cindy L Gauvreau, Leighton Schreyer, Paul Gibson, Alicia Koo, Wendy J Ungar, Dean Regier, Kelvin Chan, Robin Hayeems, Jennifer Gibson, Antonia Palmer, Stuart Peacock, Avram E Denburg
OBJECTIVES: Health technology assessment (HTA) does not systematically account for the circumstances and needs of children and youth. To supplement HTA processes, we aimed to develop a child-tailored value assessment framework using a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach. METHODS: We constructed an MCDA-based model in multiple phases to create the Comprehensive Assessment of Technologies for Child Health (CATCH) framework. Using a modified Delphi process with stakeholders having broad disciplinary and geographic variation (n=23), we refined previously generated criteria and developed rank-based weights...
March 26, 2024: Value in Health: the Journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research