In the sensitivity tests of criteria attributes, the test interval for the weight of each criterion attribute was chosen to be from 0.00 to 1.00, and it was stipulated that if the weight of the target criterion attribute was x, then the weights of the other three criteria attributes were set to 1-x /33. 1-x /3
The relative weights of attributes with respect to the criterion attribute P h were given in the second column of the converged matrix W h ∞.
In order to derive the weights in the super matrix W h, pair wise comparisons between attributes were performed in response to the following question: which of the two attributes contributed more to the criterion attribute P h ?
Without specific assessment criteria, attributes that are currently measured indirectly or bypassed altogether, like the ability to communicate, build rapport and work with more vulnerable and challenging patients, risk being devalued or ignored.
Finally, Phase II included this vendor content in surveys of PAC buyers/users to identify salient product and service purchase criteria (attributes) and potential barriers to entry for a new PAC product (Table 1).
So this study further underwent sensitivity tests of criteria attributes in order to explore to what extent the weights of criteria attributes influenced the optimal solution to China's institutional problem of health care provider selection.
The doctors' average assessed values of the relative preferences for criteria attributes of alternatives with respect to activity attributes, regulatory attributes, market attributes, and strategic attributes in the national expert survey were prepared in the fourth table.
The doctors' average assessed values of the relative importance of activity attributes, regulatory attributes, market attributes, and strategic attributes with respect to criteria attributes in the national expert survey were prepared in the second table.
DALY Disability-adjusted life year GDP Gross domestic product The survey questionnaire is detailed in Table 2 with the varying levels of criteria attributes that are grouped and assigned into sets of vignettes.
Since quantifier criteria attribute ontological commitment based on the domain of quantification, they reveal no hidden ontological cost to theories couched in an extension of first-order logic that includes plural quantification.
