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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Application of AHP Tool for Choosing a Medical Research Area
Authors : Rahi Jain, Bakul Rao
Published in: 6th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Unlimited resource allocation for all types of medical research is not feasible for any nation, funding agency and researcher (decision maker). This study focuses on developing decision making tool/template using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for decision maker for arriving at focused area of research. Gene therapy based lung cancer treatment is used as a case to demonstrate the template/tool use. The alternatives selected for AHP are immunogene therapy, suicide gene therapy, anti-angiogenic gene therapy, oncogene inhibition based gene therapy, tumor suppressor gene therapy and pro-apoptotic gene therapy. The ability of the tool to provide selection of the gene therapy with process flexibility like criteria selection, technology selection and criteria weightages allows its use by decision maker.