Nursing homes are owned by municipalities and their funding depends on the ranking of priorities in municipal budgets.
Hence, if this holds true, pleasure and displeasure – a non-rational experience-should be the common currency used also for the ranking of priorities in the process of decision making.
A well-informed public conversant with the values in the ethical framework and aware of the expertise that informed the ranking of priorities for immunisation would be consistent with value of trust and the principle of transparency.
While there was positive sentiment about the provision of all suggested services for adolescents, as illustrated through the discussion that accompanied the ranking exercise, the different ranking of priorities between the two groups of HCPs is potentially indicative of different epidemiological contexts or health service access issues in the two provinces.
Tables 3 and 4 further validate these conclusions by showing the ranking of alternative priorities based on the COG and Chen's defuzzification methods, respectively.
We used logistic regression to assess the likelihood that individuals ranked minimizing inequalities first, and rank-ordered logistic regression to compare the ranking of other priorities against minimizing health inequalities.
On a more positive note, we were pleased that young adults with neurodisability took part in the final workshop, and their preferences and views were captured in the ranking of research priorities.
5. Compilation of the results and the ranking of the identified priority setting criteria were done to establish the perceived importance of each criterion.
The outcomes were used to create a survey, allowing the ranking of the research priorities.
