Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods are famous approaches to structure information and decision evaluation in problems with multiple, conflicting goals. This paper proposes a fusion approach for solving the alternative selection problem. It has three advantages described as below: (1) it uses the entropy method and the ME-OWA operator to get the value of the attribute weight; (2) it u...

In Health Care Delivery Systems-Evaluation Criteria Dr. Lapatra attempts to study evaluation criteria of existing health care delivery systems and apply the technology of operations research and systems analysis to its evaluation. He attempts to show how he can "apply systems concepts to the study of the U.S. health system" with an ultimate goal of defining the necessary variables to improve ou...

1.1 Purpose. This document is a guide for the development, evaluation, and review of proposed and existing practice guidelines. It is designed to promote quality and consistency in practice guideline development and to describe the criteria by which practice guidelines are evaluated and reviewed. These criteria are designed to assist in the development of guidelines that are broadly applicable ...

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While many authors have argued for the benefits of applying principles of modularization to ontologies, there is not yet a common understanding of how modules are defined and what properties they should have. In the previous section, this question was addressed from a purely logical point of view. In this chapter, we take a broader view on possible criteria that can be used to determine the qua...

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In simulation software selection problems, packages are evaluated either on their own merits or in comparison with other packages. In either method, a list of criteria for evaluation of simulation software is essential for proper selection. Although various simulation software evaluation checklists do exist, there are differences in the lists provided and the terminologies used. This paper pres...

BACKGROUND The District Health Management Information Systems (DHMISs) were established by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Kenya more than two decades ago. Since then, no comprehensive evaluation has been undertaken. This can partly be attributed to lack of defined criteria for evaluating them. OBJECTIVE To propose evaluation criteria for assessing the design, implementation and impact of DHM...