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A consensus-based decision model for assessing the health systems

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  • Yang Xu
  • Kin Keung Lai
  • W K J Leung

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Many countries and international organisations have been developing health system performance assessment frameworks and indicators to support healthcare management and inform public health policy. Effectiveness, accessibility, safety and patient-centeredness were four dimensions that were most commonly measured. This paper develops a new consensus-based decision model to assess the health systems, in which different stakeholders of healthcare systems are identified by different decision approaches, i.e., the coefficient variation approach, the Shannon entropy approach and the distance-based approach, respectively. The consensus result is obtained by minimizing the total deviation from the ideal point. A numerical illustration with simulated data is presented to show the effectiveness of our model.

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  • Yang Xu & Kin Keung Lai & W K J Leung, 2020. "A consensus-based decision model for assessing the health systems," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(8), pages 1-14, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0237892
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237892
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