Background: Many countries (England, Australia) and most recently, Canada, with the initiation of the Common Drug Review process have developed committees to study whether new treatments should be reimbursed within a publicly funded health care system. The mandates of these organizations are to...

Objectives Drug decision-makers are involved in developing and implementing policy, procedure and processes to support health resource allocation regarding drug treatment formularies. A variety of approaches to decision-making, including formal decision-making frameworks, have been developed to...