SteelFisher Gillian K
Harvard Opinion Research Program, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 0211 USA.
Cost Eff Resour Alloc. 2018 Nov 9;16(Suppl 1):39. doi: 10.1186/s12962-018-0123-x. eCollection 2018.
This commentary utilizes the lens of public opinion research in health to suggest ideas for best integrating public input into multi-criteria decisions analysis (MCDA) approaches. The field of public opinion research suggests: (1) there is frequently a distinction between public and expert views, even outside of situations where the public has direct experience; (2) representative samples are important to ensure findings reflect all segments of the relevant population; and (3) limiting cognitive burden in studies designed to elicit public preferences is essential for meaningful responses that represent the population's views. Together these reflections suggest the need for considering new avenues for including public views in MCDA approaches where representative samples relying on well-designed questions are utilized more regularly.
本评论文章运用健康领域的民意调查视角，提出将公众意见最佳整合到多标准决策分析（MCDA）方法中的思路。民意调查领域表明：（1）即使在公众没有直接经验的情况下，公众观点与专家观点之间也常常存在差异；（2）具有代表性的样本对于确保研究结果反映相关人群的所有部分很重要；（3）在旨在引出公众偏好的研究中，限制认知负担对于获得代表人群观点的有意义回应至关重要。综合这些思考表明，有必要考虑新途径，以便在更经常使用依赖精心设计问题的代表性样本的MCDA方法中纳入公众观点。
