Abstract Background Medicine purchasing in Chinese public hospitals is decided by the hospital Pharmacy Management Committee (PMC), that complex, subjective and requires efficient approaches to ensure transparency consistency for factors being considered. This study aimed use Evidence Value: Impact on Decision Making (EVIDEM) framework assess medicine these hospitals. In this anti-diabetic drug...

Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) is attracting considerable interest as a tool to assist decision makers faced with the challenge of considering a range of relevant factors when making their decision. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) is a long-established national health technology assessment (HTA) agency providing guidance to the health service on all new medicines. The stated cri...

In this paper, an interesting and easy method to solve the multi-dimensional  knapsack problem is presented. Although it belongs to the combinatorial optimization, but the proposed method belongs to the decision making field in mathematics. In order to, initially efficiency values for every item is calculated then items are ranked by using Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDA).  Finally, ite...

The sensitivity analysis for multi-attribute decision making (MADM) problems is important for two reasons: First, the decision matrix as the source of the results of a decision problem is inaccurate because it sorts the alternatives in each criterion inaccurately. Second, the decision maker may change his opinions in a time period because of changes in the importance of the criteria and in the ...

Various decision support methods are used to support the sustainable use of natural resources, but there is little evidence about these methods’ actual performances. In this study, 35 carefully selected papers assessing the sustainable use of natural resources were evaluated. The evaluated papers utilized one of the following methods: optimization, costbenefit analysis (CBA) and monetary valuat...

Decision-making in environmental projects is typically a complex and confusing exercise, characterized by trade-offs between socio-political, environmental, and economic impacts. Cost-benefit analyses are often used, occasionally in concert with comparative risk assessment, to choose between competing project alternatives. The selection of appropriate remedial and abatement policies for contami...

Taking the “best” decision is an important issue in the natural risks expertise and management process because of lack of information and knowledge about natural phenomena and also because of the heterogeneity and reliability of information sources (historical data, field measures, expert judgements). One main problem is therefore to help decision making with regard to the respective quality, i...

Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a technique for decision making among multiple alternatives for action providing transparent and coherent decision support for complex situations with conflicting objectives. Managing longer term decisions for environmental incidents is an application domain in which MCDA has proved useful. Yet a difficulty in applying MCDA is when uncertainties abound...