Greatest weights were given to the criteria "Budget impact", "Cost-effectiveness" and "Completeness and consistency of reporting evidence".
The fact that the committee gave the highest weighting to "Budget impact on health plan", "Cost-effectiveness of intervention" and "Completeness and consistency of reporting evidence" reflects its focus on issues of affordability and cost-effectiveness as well as quality of clinical evidence.
Weights for "Budget impact on health plan", "Cost-effectiveness of intervention" and "Completeness and consistency of reporting evidence" showed the least variation among committee members (SD 0.5).
The greatest weights (mean 4.7, on a scale of 1 to 5) were assigned to the criteria "Budget impact on health plan", "Cost-effectiveness of intervention" and "Completeness and consistency of reporting evidence", followed by "Improvement of efficacy/effectiveness" and "Relevance and validity of evidence" (mean 4.4).
As defined by ISO 9241 11 [ 36], effectiveness is the accuracy and completeness with which users achieve goals, efficiency the resources expended in relation to the accuracy and completeness with which users achieve goals, and satisfaction the comfort and acceptability of use.
Effectiveness is the degree of accuracy and completeness with which the user achieves a specified task in a certain context [20].
In this context, effectiveness is understood as the "accuracy and completeness with which users achieve specified goals", while efficiency consists of "resources expended in relation to the accuracy and completeness with which users achieve goals".
In the Senegalese setting, there were difficulties in ensuring the timeliness, accuracy and completeness of data to demonstrate the effectiveness of policy responses.
Research has also shown that the degree of effectiveness of the physician-patient communication determines the accuracy and completeness of the information that the physician receives from the patient [ 7, 8].
