Rapid research and implementation priority setting for wound care uncertainties

Rapid research and implementation priority setting for wound care uncertainties

INTRODUCTION People with complex wounds are more likely to be elderly, living with multimorbidity and wound related symptoms. A variety of products are available for managing complex wounds and a range of healthcare professionals are involved in wound care, yet there is a lack of good evidence to guide practice and services. These factors create uncertainty for those who deliver and those who m...

Qualitative methodologies in health-care priority setting research.

Priority setting research in health economics has traditionally employed quantitative methodologies and been informed by post-positivist philosophical assumptions about the world and the nature of knowledge. These approaches have been rewarded with well-developed and validated tools. However, it is now commonly noted that there has been limited uptake of economic analysis into actual priority s...

Involving citizens in priority setting for public health research: Implementation in infection research

BACKGROUND Public sources fund the majority of UK infection research, but citizens currently have no formal role in resource allocation. To explore the feasibility and willingness of citizens to engage in strategic decision making, we developed and tested a practical tool to capture public priorities for research. METHOD A scenario including six infection themes for funding was developed to a...

Identifying research priorities for health care priority setting: a collaborative effort between managers and researchers

BACKGROUND To date there has been relatively little published about how research priorities are set, and even less about methods by which decision-makers can be engaged in defining a relevant and appropriate research agenda. We report on a recent effort in British Columbia to have researchers and decision-makers jointly establish an agenda for future research into questions of resource allocati...

Characterising Needs in Health Care Priority Setting