Matthew Liberatore
and colleagues employed a highly simplified version of the Analytic
Hierarchy Process as the intervention arm of a study on decision
counselling for asymptomatic 50-69yo males regarding prostate cancer
screening. Screening was defined as involving both PSA testing and DRE. | MJ Liberatore, RE Myers, RL Nydick, M Steinberg, ER Brown, R
Gay, T Powell, RL Powell 2003 "Decision counseling for men considering
prostate cancer screening" Computers and Operational Research 30:
1421-1434 |
- Effect on current Health
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Effect on long term Well-being
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Encouragement of health care providers
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Encouragement of family or friends
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min-Feeling uncomfortable or embarrassed about having test
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min-Inconvenience
- min-Expense
- Screen i.e. Prostate-Specific Antigen test plus Digital Rectal Examination
- No screen
No data are reported in the paper, so those in the Annalisa below are purely illustrative. They are in idealised mode Many of the reasons Liberatore et al give for simplifying the
AHP are those which led to the simple design of Annalisa (time,
complexity, number of criteria and options, scaling, etc) They
concluded that a well-designed multi-criteria based decision aid
administered by a trained facilitator could be successfully implemented
in primary care practice
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