Steps of the development of the prioritisation approaches (N=22)
| Use of a pre-existing approach | Literature review | Consensus building | Stakeholder input | Pilot-testing | |
| N (%) approaches reporting the step* | 14 (64) | 14 (64) | 3 (14) | 7 (32) | 11 (50) |
| Abma, 201050 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Ball, 201664 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Bennett, 2010; Bennett, 2012; Saldanha, 201341–43 | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Berra, 201059 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Chang, 201260 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Chapman, 201365 | ✓ | ||||
| Cowan, 201345 | ✓ | ||||
| Dubois, 201161 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Edwards, 201952 | ✓ | ||||
| Franck, 2018; Franck, 202049 56 | ✓ | ||||
| Ghaffar, 2009; 200938 48† | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Hacking, 201644 | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Kapiriri, 201863 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Lomas, 200346 | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Montorzi, 201047 | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Pratt, 201655 | ✓ | ||||
| Rudan, 2006, 200837 | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Somanadhan, 202053 | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Viergever, 201062 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Wald, 201451 | ✓ | ||||
| WHO, 199675 | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Yan, 202054 | ✓ | ✓ |
*The denominator reflects the total number of approaches that described the steps of the development of the approach.
†The tool has now been further refined into a Three-Dimensional Combined Approach Matrix which is described in this document.