Summary of most important rankings for studies using the outcome prioritisation tool
| Study | Health outcome prioritisation as a tool for decision making among older persons with multiple chronic conditions39 (%) | Health outcome prioritisation to elicit preferences of older persons with multiple health conditions40 (%) | Outcome prioritisation tool for medication review in older patients with multimorbidity: a pilot study in general practice46 (%) | Eliciting Preferences of multimorbid elderly adults in family practice using an outcome prioritisation tool45 (%) | Aggregate ranking as most important (%) |
| Maintaining independence | 270 (75.6) | 34 (42.0) | 7 (36.8) | 19 (35.8) | 330 (64.7) |
| Staying alive | 40 (11.2) | 22 (27.2) | 6 (31.6) | 18 (34.0) | 86 (16.9) |
| Pain relief | 26 (7.3) | 17 (21.0) | 1 (5.3) | 6 (11.3) | 50 (9.8) |
| Symptom relief | 21 (5.9) | 8 (9.8) | 5 (26.3) | 10 (18.9) | 44 (8.6) |
| Total no of participants | 357 | 81 | 19* | 53 | 510 |
*Although there were 59 patients included in this study46 priorities were only reported for 19 patients.