The rating tool will be composed of criteria, criteria definitions, criteria weights and rating scales to measure the overall impact of breast cancer interventions and support the priority setting process.
Then, the last step (called S3 Relevant Publications Selection Second Filter), composed by criteria regarding the publication content, was performed to select among the publications selected in S2, those ones that answer the study research questions.
For that reason, a second step (called S2 Relevant Publications Selection -First Filter), composed by criteria regarding the publication abstract, was applied to the publications selected in the first step, in order to identify that ones whose abstracts showed signs that the publication addresses the research questions.
The American-European Consensus Criteria for the classification of SS finally established that, among the six items composing the criteria set, either focal sialoadenitis at MSG biopsy (with a focus score ≥1 for 4 mm2 glandular tissue) or the presence of specific autoantibodies should be mandatory for the diagnosis of pSS [ 10].
The damage onset for individual lamina is detected by a mixed failure criterion, composed of the Tsai-Wu criterion and the maximum stress criterion.
If (S_{A_{R}}^{t+1}) is greater than λ, there is strict preference and the rule composed by the criteria and meta-criteria in the alternative can be proposed to the user.
A group of criteria is composed by at least two criteria.
The hierarchy is composed of alternative, criteria, and objective levels, and includes a list of all of the alternatives.
The tool is composed of 14 criteria inspecting the objectives, population, participation, exposures, and outcomes of the particular investigations.
The SAFE framework is hierarchical as it is composed of principles, criteria, indicators and reference values in a structured way.
