background: health workforce shortages in rural and remote areas are a global challenge that almost every health system has to deal with. this study aimed to discover neurosurgeons’ job preferences and propose policy interventions that could possibly increase their retention in rural, remote, or underserved areas. methods: a discrete choice experiment (dce) was conducted in november 2014 with a...

OBJECTIVES Understanding the preferences of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) for disease-modifying drugs and involving these patients in clinical decision making can improve the concordance between medical decisions and patient values and may, subsequently, improve adherence to disease-modifying drugs. This study aims first to identify which characteristics-or attributes-of disease-modifyi...

Industrial location problems belong to the scope of multicriteria decision making (MCDM) given the high number of attributes to be considered in its planning and analysis. This work deals with a problem with four potential sites and five influential subjective criteria. A panel of experts related to the problem makes a fuzzy valuation of these attributes allowing to capture the uncertainty inhe...

We consider MultiCriteria Decision Analysis models which are defined over discrete attributes, taking a finite number of values. We do not assume that the model is monotonically increasing with respect to the attributes values. Our aim is to define an importance index for such general models, considering that they are equivalent to k-ary games (multichoice games). We show that classical solutio...

While the difficulties of defining meat quality are highlighted, the importance of measuring quality attributes is recognised, However, it is suggested that emphasis be given during the immediate future to the current research programmes aimed at the design and evaluation of carcase classification and information services. Should the pilot runs of the services demonstrate that the likely costs ...