A Model for Making Project Funding Decisions at the National Cancer Institute

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Operational research techniques applied throughout cancer care services: a review

“…At the national or regional level, OR studies have influenced decisions on screening strategies (Koleva-Kolarova et al, 2015), cervical screening processes (Pilgrim and Chilcott, 2008) and funding of anti-cancer proposals (Hall et al, 1992). At the hospital or department level, OR studies have impacted brachytherapy delivery (Lee & Zaider, 2008), surgical schedules (Vanberkel et al, 2011), chemotherapy booking practices and schedules (Santibáñez et al, 2012), nurse hiring and shift start times and cancer treatment centre capacity, layout and scheduling processes (Matta & Patterson, 2007).…”

“…Hall, Hershey, Kessler, and Stotts (1992) address smoking, a well-known risk factor for lung cancer, while Kim, Campos, O'Shea, Diaz, and Mutyaba (2013) are concerned with HPV vaccination, to prevent cervical cancer. We discuss these papers in turn.…”

“…We discuss these papers in turn. Hall et al (1992) investigate how best to choose between proposed projects to reduce the number of smokers in the USA. Stakeholders participated first in a modified Delphi process to determine appropriate Bertsimas et al (2016) Prostate Finding optimal fixed-interval screening strategies according to multiple models Multi-objective optimisation, local search heuristic decision criteria and then answered a questionnaire to decide on their relative importance.…”

“…This led to development of a binary integer program which allocates funds between proposals based on budgetary constraints and how well the proposals meet the criteria. Using this approach, (Hall et al, 1992) were able to improve on the originally suggested selections of proposals, and it is reported that their recommendations were followed. Kim et al (2013) assess in which of 20 countries an HPV vaccination programme would be cost-effective, as well as modelling cytology-based screening in three countries where sufficient data were available.…”

Project Selection Problem by Combination of Shannon Entropy and MCDM Techniques

“…Singh proposed a Resource Constrained MultiProject Scheduling with Priority Rules & Analytic Hierarchy Process for evaluating projects [17]. Also other researches such as ( [4], [7], [6], [8], [9], [14], [18] and [19] …”