Development of an MCDA framework for evaluation and positioning of oncological treatments in clinical practice.

2019

95 Background: Ensuring that effective innovations are accessible in a timely and affordable manner to all cancer patients is a challenge that stakeholders face today. Several oncology frameworks (ASCO, ESMO, ICER, NCCN) have been developed to define and quantify the value of oncological therapies to support clinicians and patients at the time of selection and as a basis for decision-making. However, current frameworks only define treatment value in terms of clinical benefit, creating a need for one that allows holistic evaluation of treatments and supports decision-making in clinical practice. The ECO Foundation led this study to develop a reflective multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA…