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Table 3 Scenario analyses: eight alternative analysis scenarios and the resulting impact on the composition of the top-20 ranked diseases

From: Prioritisation for future surveillance, prevention and control of 98 communicable diseases in Belgium: a 2018 multi-criteria decision analysis study

ID

Study step

Scenario name

Description

Impact on top-20 priority classificationa

A

Default

The default analysis scenario, including hierarchical weighting from all professions without future risks considered.

Reference

B

Criteria selection

Future risk

Accounts for the additional criterion ‘future risk’.

1/20

C

Weighting

Epidemiologists

Weighting according to profession: epidemiologists.

2/20

D

Weighting

Clinicians

Weighting according to profession: clinicians.

0/20

E

Weighting

Microbiologists

Weighting according to profession: microbiologists.

0/20

F

Weighting

Consistent respondents

Weighting that only takes into account responses with valid validation answers.

0/20

G

Weighting

Non-hierarchical Weighting

Non-hierarchical weighting: not accounting for the number of criteria within a criteria group.

6/20

H

Scoring

Quantification of answer categories

Alternative set of quantifications representing answer categories of the scoring survey (Table S1).

6/20

  1. aNumber of diseases originally found in the top-20 ranked diseases that got replaced in the alternative scenario.