The former were also less likely to consider priority setting to be part of their duties.
The lack of statistical differences in the responses to this critical question, in relation to age, designation, level of work, and whether or not the respondent considered priority setting to be part of their work, was also surprising.
Future Priority Setting Partnerships should consider making the provision of contact details mandatory for participants so that issues like this can be followed up and support offered.
Ensuring a range of voices in priority setting is considered important because, as well as identifying useful research, there are the additional benefits from bringing together researchers and other stakeholders.
According to 'accountability for reasonableness', an institution's priority setting may be considered fair if four conditions are met: relevance, publicity, appeals, and enforcement (see Table 1).
Given that healthcare demand outstrips available resources, the judicial use of resources through appropriate priority setting has been considered a key determinant of health system performance (Martin 2007).
Non-health workers were less likely to consider priority setting in health as part of their duty (Table 4).
For instance, priority setting needs to underlie the efforts to increase the quality, relevance, and production of research by considering whether there is a demand for this research.
Political considerations will also be important to consider in priority setting [ 78].
They described difficulties in using the criteria, and identified three additional dimensions to consider in priority setting in PHC, namely viewpoint (medical or patient's), timeframe (now or later) and evidence level (group or individual).
