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Vol.4, No.11, 1007-1014 (2012) Health /10.4236/health.2012.411154 Design and implementation of a survey of senior Canadian healthcare decision-makers: Organization-wide resource allocation processes 1* 1,2 3 4,5 2,6,7 Neale Smith , Craig Mitton , Alan Davidson , Jennifer Gibson , Stuart Peacock , Stirling Bryan1,2, Cam Donaldson8 1Centre for Clinical Epidemiology Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada; * Corresponding Author: neale.smith@ubc.ca 2School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 3Faculty of Health and Social Development, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada 4University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Canada 5Department of Health Policy, Management Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 6Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control (ARCC), Vancouver, Canada 7British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada 8Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK Received 10 August 2012; revised 13 September 2012; accepted 27 September 2012 ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION A three-year research project based in British Making choices about what to fund and not fund is an Columbia, Canada, is attempting to develop a on-going obligation of healthcare decision-makers; avail- framework and tools to assist healthcare system able financial resources are never sufficient to meet all decision-makers achieve “high performance” in claims. However, to date we have limited knowledge resource allocation.