Table 2 also shows the answers to Question 5 about additional information that should be part of the basis for decision making. The number of domains mentioned varied
between zero and nine.
As the table shows, information within all domains are considered relevant by at least 50% of the respondents.
Table 3 shows the types of information considered as most relevant by the respondents (Question 6 in Box 1). Of the 53 respondents, 50 identified some information as
being more relevant than other information.
Only three respondents said that all types of information were equally important.
The most frequent combinations of information that the respondents considered as most relevant were(i) clinical and economic aspects (10 respondents) or (ii) clinical, safety and economic aspects (9 respondents). As the table shows, clinical effectiveness and economics were considered as the most important information by more than 70% of the respondents.
Hereafter comes information on safety, the patients’ health problem, organizational
aspects and political and strategic aspects.
Tables 2 and 3 show consistency in the answers to Questions 4 and 6. The economic and clinical aspects of new treatments are mentioned most and second most frequently in both questions and the five most frequent types of information are also the same in the two questions.