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Chapter 8 - How Are Group Decisions Practiced in Healthcare?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2023

Ramalingam Shanmugam
Ramalingam Shanmugam
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Texas State University, San Marcos
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Summary

First, let us understand the need for making a group decision in the healthcare setting. A single person making healthcare decisions is likely to offer more liabilities than strengths. Group decision-making can reduce this risk. One advantage of group decision-making is that it brings in different perspectives. Because group members have different orientations and interests, the group decision-making process is chaotic with conflicts and contradictions. Strategies can be employed to rectify these difficulties.

The Delphi approach increases the chance for reaching a consensus by utilizing qualitative techniques as well as descriptive and inferential concepts. The Delphi procedure is appropriate when several criteria are to be met and hence gets the name multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) (Aires and Ferreira, 2018). The MCDA functions based on five components: goal, criteria, alternatives, decision makers, and outcomes (Kumar et al., 2017). The MCDA builds consensus using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP).

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Data-Guided Healthcare Decision Making , pp. 199 - 211
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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