JF provided guidance on the literature review process, grading and categorizing criteria, and quality review of selected articles, and participated actively as an author of the manuscript.
MCDA principles were applied in the present study to define criteria regrouping terms referring to the same concept and to categorize criteria into a meaningful and intuitive architecture (clustering).
We categorized the criteria according to both health system frameworks that spell out a country's health system goals and input.
In a second step, we categorized these criteria according to the health systems goals and building blocks, based on their definitions (Table 1).
Only the list of criteria reported in the review of Golan et al., categorizes criteria according to the principles of allocative justice for rationing health care, i.e. need, maximizing and egalitarian principles, but is therefore limited in scope [ 13].
Therefore, there is the need to select variety of design and construction activities criteria for green highway and determine the weightage factor for every criterion in order to categorize which criteria that most contribute to the green practices based on the priority.
p75NTR-ir profiles were identified and categorized using standard morphological criteria (Peters et al., 1991).
The SafeCare Essentials tool comprises of 41 assessment criteria categorized into five risk areas, namely: leadership and accountability (7 criteria); competent and capable workforce (7 criteria); safe environment for staff and patients (10 criteria); clinical care of patients (10 criteria), and improvement of quality and safety (7 criteria).
The variable "Age" was categorized following published criteria (Table 4), which were consistent with the criteria used in the studies included in this meta-analysis.
