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Scientific publications

– Bana e Costa CA, Oliveira MD, Rodrigues TC, Vieira ACL. Desirability–doability group judgment framework for the collaborative multicriteria evaluation of public policies. International Transactions in Operational Research. 2023. 10.1111/itor.13261

– Vieira ACL, Vidal M, Menassol J-B, Mateus TL, Santos AS, Durieux J-P, Oliveira MD: ANIPHI: An innovative pedagogical platform based on the Delphi method to support animal welfare teaching. PLoS One 2022, 17(11):e0277189.

– Salgado M, Nogueira P, Torres A, Oliveira MD: Setting Requirements for a Dashboard to Inform Portuguese Decision-Makers About Environment Health in an Urban Setting. Front Public Health 2022, 10:837433

– Miranda R, Oliveira MD, Baptista FM, Albuquerque I: Telemonitoring in Portugal: where do we stand and which way forward? Health Policy 2023, 131:104761.

– Miranda R, Oliveira MD, Nicola P, Baptista FM, Albuquerque I. Towards a framework for implementing remote patient monitoring from an integrated care perspective: a scoping review. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2023; 12:7299. doi:10.34172/ijhpm.2023.7299

– Salgado M, Vieira AC, Torres A, Oliveira MD. Selecting Indicators to Monitor and Assess Environmental Health in a Portuguese Urban Setting: A Participatory Approach. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020; 17: 8597.

– Lima Rocha P, Duarte Oliveira M, Matos Baptista F, Patrício LM. Efficiency in the cath lab: Pursuing value-based improvements following a sociotechnical approach. Rev Port Cardiol. 2022; 41: 665-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.repc.2021.11.010

Master theses

Several students from the Master of Science Degree in Biomedical Engineering and from the Master of Science Degree in in Industrial Engineering and Management developed Master theses within MEDI-VALUE context. The list of Master theses is available here.


Events attended by the MEDI-VALUE team (2019-2022)

International events

Internationally, the MEDI-VALUE team participated in different conferences, with the following works:

– Freitas L, Coelho B, Cipriano Rodrigues T, Quintino H, Oliveira, MD (2022). A socio-technical approach for multicriteria evaluation of emerging biomarkers in hospital settings. EURO 2022 – 32nd European Conference on Operational Research, Espoo, Finland.
– Oliveira MD, Coelho B, Afonso S, Freitas L, Quintino H, Mascarenhas E, Cipriano Rodrigues T, Vieira A (2022). Can multicriteria decision analysis assist hospital-based HTA of medical devices? Results from two case studies developed in Portuguese hospitals. ORAHS 2022 – 48th annual meeting of the EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services, Bergamo, Italy.
– Mascarenhas E, Oliveira MD (2022). Reshaping decision conferencing for current times: what can we learn from experience and how should it be adjusted to virtual settings?. EURO 2022, Espoo, Finland.
– Vieira A (2019). An innovative pedagogical approach, based on the Delphi method, to support animal welfare teaching. I International Congress of Education in Animal Sciences, Évora, Portugal.
– Bana e Costa C, Vieira ACL, Oliveira MD, Bana e Costa J (2019). Collaborative value modelling in widely participated decision support processes. EMC-ICDSST 2019, EURO Mini International conference on Decision Support System Technology, Madeira, Portugal.
– Freitas L, Vieira A, Oliveira MD, Bana e Costa C (2019). Embedding behavioural OR within Delphi knowledge construction processes in health settings. ORAHS 2019, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Oliveira MD, Vieira A, Angelis A, Kanavos P, Bana e Costa C (2019). A multicriteria framework to assist HTA agencies on the evaluation of new drugs on a common basis. ORAHS 2019, Karlsruhe, Germany.
– Mascarenhas E, Oliveira MD, Fernandes R. (2019). Hospital-based HTA meets OR: Challenges for structured and value-driven assessment of medical devices. ORAHS 2019, Karlsruhe, Germany.
– Oliveira MD, Freitas L, Vieira A, Dimitrovová K, Bana e Costa C (2020). Designing Delphi knowledge construction processes to enable OR behavioural research and extend stakeholders’ analyses in health settings”, e-ORAHS 2020, Vienna, Austria.
– Freitas L, Vieira A, Oliveira MD, Bana e Costa C (2021). The effect of disaggregating summary statistics in Web-Delphi processes: results from a real-world Delphi experiment. ORAHS 2021 – 47th EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services, online.
– Freitas L, Vieira A, Oliveira MD, Bana e Costa C (2021). The effect of disaggregating summary statistics in Web-Delphi processes: results from a real-world Delphi experiment. EURO 2021 – 31st European Conference on Operational Research, online.
– Vieira ACL, Oliveira MD, Bana E Costa CA (2020). Exploring the Delphi method for educational purposes The ENERPHI and ANIPHI technological web-platforms. CISPEE2020 (4th International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education), Lisbon, Portugal.
– Oliveira MD (2022). Collaborative value modelling in operational research with Delphi and decision conferencing processes. 39th Spanish Conference on Statistics (SEIO), Granada, Spain.

National events

The MEDI-VALUE team attended different events in Portugal, too. The works presented were:

– Oliveira MD, Coelho B, Afonso S, Freitas L, Quintino H, Mascarenhas E, Cipriano Rodrigues T, Vieira A (2022). Can multicriteria decision analysis assist hospital-based HTA of medical devices? Results from two case studies developed in Portuguese hospitals. IO 2022 – XXII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, Évora, Portugal.
– Oliveira MD, Cipriano Rodrigues T, Freitas L, Vieira A, Dimitrovová K, Bana e Costa J, Angelis A, Kanavos P, Bana e Costa C (2021). Designing and testing the IMPACT HTA socio-technical framework to assist HTA agencies in the multicriteria evaluation of new medicines on a common basis. 17ª CNES 2021, Lisboa, Portugal.
– Miranda R, Oliveira MD, Nicola P, Baptista F, Albuquerque I (2021). Remote patient monitoring: A scoping review of models and initiatives from an integrated care perspective.17ª CNES 2021, Lisboa, Portugal.
– Mascarenhas E, Afonso S, Coelho B, Pereira C, Quintino H, Bandeira T, Fernandes R, Oliveira MD (2021). Can multicriteria decision analysis assist hospital-based HTA of medical devices? Results from three case studies developed in Portuguese hospitals. 17ª CNES 2021, Lisboa, Portugal.
– Freitas L, Vieira A, Oliveira MD, Bana e Costa C (2021). Developing behavioural research in Web-Delphi processes: results from a real-world Delphi experiment in Health Technology Assessment. 17ª CNES 2021, Lisboa, Portugal.
– Freitas L, Vieira A, Oliveira MD, Monteiro H, Santos C, Bana e Costa C (2021). Which value aspects are relevant for the evaluation of distinct types of medical devices? A Web-Delphi process to explore the views of health stakeholders in Portugal. 17ª CNES 2021, Lisboa, Portugal.
– Freitas L, Vieira A, Oliveira MD (2021). Developing behavioural research in Web Delphi processes: results from a real-world Delphi experiment in Health Technology Assessment”. PhD Open Days 2021, Lisboa, Portugal.
– Freitas L, Vieira A, Oliveira MD (2021). A-HTA: Advancing multicriteria approaches and methods for Health Technology Assessment of medical devices. 5ª Conferência Anual da Rede Saúde, Lisboa, Portugal.
– Miranda R, Oliveira MD, Nicola P, Baptista F, Albuquerque I (2021). Remote patient monitoring: A scoping review of models and initiatives from an integrated care perspective. 5ª Conferência Anual da Rede Saúde, Lisboa, Portugal.
– Afonso S, Oliveira MD, Pereira C (2021). Developing tools to evaluate genomic testing strategies at IPO Lisboa: A multi-methodological approach. 5ª Conferência Anual da Rede Saúde, Lisboa, Portugal.
– Oliveira MD, Cipriano Rodrigues T, Freitas L, Vieira A, Dimitrovová K, Bana e Costa J, Angelis A, Kanavos P, Bana e Costa C (2021). Designing and testing the IMPACT HTA socio-technical framework to assist Health Technology Assessment agencies in the multicriteria evaluation of new medicines on a common basis. 5ª Conferência Anual da Rede Saúde, Lisboa, Portugal
– Freitas L, Vieira A, Oliveira MD, Bana e Costa C (2019). Embedding behavioural OR within Delphi knowledge construction processes in health settings. IO 2019, Tomar, Portugal.
– Oliveira MD, Vieira A, Angelis A, Kanavos P, Bana e Costa C (2019). A multicriteria framework to assist HTA agencies on the evaluation of new drugs on a common basis. IO 2019, Tomar, Portugal.
– Mascarenhas E, Oliveira MD, Fernandes R (2019). Hospital-based HTA meets OR: Challenges for structured and value-driven assessment of medical devices. IO 2019, Tomar, Portugal.
– Oliveira MD (2019). Multi-criteria decision analysis for health technology assessment: value modelling tools and challenges”. Conferência Científica Pré-Cimeira de Cascais: Valor em Saúde, um Compromisso para Todos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, NOVA School of Business and Economics, Cascais, Portugal.
– Vieira A, Oliveira MD, Bana e Costa C (2019). Novel approaches to involve health stakeholders for collaborative value modelling. Conferência Científica Pré-Cimeira de Cascais: Valor em Saúde, um Compromisso para Todos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, NOVA School of Business and Economics, Cascais, Portugal.
– Freitas L, Vieira A, Oliveira MD, Bana e Costa C (2019). Combining behavioural health economics with Delphi processes: Developing new tools to enable the collection of stakeholders’ views in policy and HTA contexts. 16ª CNES 2019, Lisboa, Portugal.
– Oliveira MD, Vieira A, Angelis A, Kanavos P, Bana e Costa C (2019). A multicriteria framework to assist HTA agencies on the evaluation of new drugs on a common basis. 16ª CNES 2019, Lisboa, Portugal.
– Vieira A, Oliveira MD, Angelis A, Kanavos P, Bana e Costa C (2019). Who’s in and who’s out: A framework to critically identify stakeholders to engage in Health Technology Assessment. 16ª CNES 2019, Lisboa, Portugal.
– Mascarenhas E, Oliveira MD, Alarcão J, Fernandes R (2019). Hospital-based Health Technology Assessment: addressing challenges and opportunities for structured and value-driven evaluations of medical devices. 16ª CNES 2019, Lisboa, Portugal.
– Oliveira MD (2022). Value based health care – O valor dos resultados/Outcomes. Congresso Nacional da Ordem dos Médicos (Convidada, Mesa redonda), tema “A Medicina em Tempo Pós-Covid | Cenários para 2040”, Lisbon, Portugal.

Summer Schools

The MEDI-VALUE team participated in the 2nd and 3rd Behavioural Operational Research (BOR) Summer Schools. The organization of the Euro PhD summer school ‘Operational Research for Value-based Health Care’ was also supported by the team.

MEDI-VALUE kick-off meeting

The kick-off meeting took place on the 31st of January of 2019, at IST. The meeting aimed at promoting the first meeting of MEDI-VALUE researchers, discussing how various tasks and activities are necessary to launch the project and perform initial tasks, and promoting the alignment of researchers on the work to be carried out.