A novel approach to modelling the prescribing decision, integrating physician and patient influences

This paper describes a case study designed to demonstrate the feasibility of building a linked decision model based on the implications of distributed decision-making in healthcare, and thus to provide the ability to make quantified predictions of product offer performance.
  

A novel approach to modelling the prescribing decision, integrating physician and patient influences

Phil Mellor

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Stuart GreenAdelphi International Research Ltd

Summary

The marketing need of our client was to make decisions on positioning options available to a new product for the treatment of an important and common disease, and one where patients are known to have views on their treatment. The marketing research was required to provide a decision support model based on a quantitative understanding of the potential impact of product profile options. A forecasting tool was designed that integrated insights both from the...

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