This paper describes evidence-based priority setting and resource allocation undertaken by a Division of the Women's & Children's Hospital, Adelaide during 1998-1999. We describe the methods used to combine program budgeting marginal analysis (PBMA), evidence based and "community values" approaches into one decision-making framework. Previous organisational changes involving the formation of mu...

This paper provides a brief overview of research priority setting methods at various levels in national research systems, noting the changing emphasis from supply-driven to demand-driven approaches at both macro-and micro levels of priority setting. The scope for incorporation of a poverty dimension into priority setting is then reviewed within a general framework that recognizes the complexity...

BACKGROUND It is estimated that more than $130 billion is invested globally into health research each year. Increasingly, there is a need to set priorities in health research investments in a fair and legitimate way, using a sound and transparent methodology. In this paper we review selected priority setting processes at national level in low and middle income countries. We outline a set of cri...