Analytic approaches for research priority-setting: issues, challenges and the way forward

In the last two decades, growing demand for studies assessing healthcare interventions, coupled with the acknowledgment that limited public funds for research ought to be allocated efficiently, has led to increasing calls for the use of analytic approaches for research prioritization. Two main approaches have been proposed – ‘value of information’ and ‘prospective payback of research’ – but neither of them is used formally in the prioritization...