Study of the health institutions objectives’s effect on their decision models
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The administration of Health Institutions (HI) takes into consideration economic, social and environmental objectives. Moreover, the institutional nature of such institutions, whether private (for profit) or public (owned by the government), determines the relationships within its objectives. According to Decision Analysis Theory (DA), every decision must be studied starting from the objectives that give foundation to it; thus, the decision models utilized by the administration of a HI should reflect its nature. This article shows the usage of DA to develop decision models for the selection of an analyzer and the time between appointments for hypothetical case studies of a private and a public HI. It can be observed that in the former, the greatest modeling effort lies in capturing uncertainties, whereas the latter emphasized analyzing preferences. In relation to the latter, a graphical tool -the Circle of Utility- is presented to calculate the deliberations of the additive utility functions.
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