A rigor score evaluated metric development based on conceptual relevance, indicator development method, degree of independent validation, and temporal and spatial extent tested.
Developing and applying context-specific policy-relevant indicators likely has relevance for helping policy-makers and planners assess and monitor how diverse urban environments support various transport modes, and in turn, health behaviours and outcomes.
Furthermore, each indicator can range from a minimum or a maximum score (single scores are reported in Appendix); while the minimum score is always zero, the maximum scores vary depending on the social relevance attributed to the indicator, and therefore, more relevant indicators have higher maximum scores.
The two selection criteria we used are very simple: 1) the higher the position of an objective in the ranking, the higher the relevance of the indicator associated with that objective; 2) a threshold value is arbitrarily set to cut off the less relevant indicators of PSUM.
Given these results, an interesting thought is to what extent the perceived relevance of indicators by (future) patients should drive the selection of quality indicators for comparative health care information.
"One by-product is a fall in the relevance of indicators such as power consumption, rail-cargo volume and new bank credit in gauging economic performance," he wrote.
The tables point out the different set of "endogenous" weights (and the consequent relevance) associated to the sub-indicators applying the two methods and also how they vary across the scenarios; while for the DEA the most relevant indicator comes to be the potential accessibility, for the BOD procedure the major changes in results are obtained eliminating the location index.
Although EMS standards recognise the relevance of using indicators, they do not specify any methodology to identify which indicators have to be implemented.
The relevance of appropriate indicators for building energy regulation and certification schemes is discussed, presenting the main conditions they should fulfil.
Our study presents the results of a survey of physicians and/or researchers working in 21 European countries, on their opinion about the relevance of perinatal indicators, in order to compare it with the EURO-PERISTAT recommendations.
The emphasis on two out of eight critical United Nations Millennium Development Goals, that is, reducing under five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015; and reducing maternal mortality ratio by three quarters between 1990 and 2015 epitomise the relevance of these indicators in global efforts towards human development and alleviation of poverty [5], [6], [7].
