Table 4

Barriers and facilitators for explicit priority setting

Barriers
Facilitators

- lack of trust between stakeholders
- senior level managerial and clinical champions
- physicians not on board
- strong leadership
- advisory panel lacking health economic knowledge and/ or allocation experience
- culture to learn and change
- politics preventing program evaluation
- integrated budgets
- discontinuity of personnel
- resources earmarked for process itself and follow-up on recommendations
- too many administrative demands leaving priority setting as a low priority activity
- built in incentives for appropriate and efficient spending

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