This criterion recognised explicitly the limited degrees of freedom within which priorities could be set, but also highlighted the importance for decision-makers of participating with government in achieving regional and provincial health service objectives.
Data were analyzed and preliminary results were shared with policy makers and representatives of participating facilities at an orientation workshop.
First, the willingness of decision-makers to participate depends on their trust in the process.
The clearest indication of institutional support for research is to provide the time and resources for decision-makers to participate in collaboration activities with researchers.
These criteria represent the operationalization of the objectives and sub-objectives of decision makers and stakeholders participating in the decision-making process.
In order to translate these research outcomes into concrete and feasible policy measures, each municipality is offered an semi-structured workshop session in which policy makers of different sectors participate.
Seven of the nine policy makers participating in our study noted that the increased bargaining power achieved through collective negotiations would likely lead to lower prices and cost savings for participating jurisdictions (see Table 2).
These two applications allow us to analyse an algorithm's properties and performance by defining ORs, how an algorithm's termination/convergence criteria affect the results and the importance of decision-makers participating in the optimisation process.
However, decision-makers (DMs) participating the construction of HoQ tend to give their individual judgments in multi-format or multi-granularity depending on their different knowledge, experience, culture and circumstance.
The rehydration strategies were re-structured by decision makers participating in the project and the author of this paper.
In the eyes of the decision-makers participating in the forums, effective priority setting and resource allocation is often held back by a lack of good, appropriate, applicable, reliable and valid data (III:6).
