Background and Objectives: The selection of the sustainable supplier is important for any industry. Medical centers are not an exception in this case, and selecting the best sustainable supplier is a major step towards increasing their productivity. This paper, using the Data Envelopment Analysis and then using Multi-Attributed Utility Theory as a backup approach to fix errors, attempts t...

conclusions although the two instruments were able to discriminate between various states, the values derived from these instruments were quite different. this distinction could have influenced the conclusions of an economic evaluation. further research is required to determine which instrument should be used in economic evaluations. results the mean and median eq-5d utility scores for the tota...

When evaluating of the senior manager’s performance is based on the achieving to budget and they have responsibility to report the capacity of resources which are in their part too; it is possible to create budget slack and effect on their performance evaluation by providing pessimistic and conservatively estimates or manipulated information of income and expenses. So, Senior Manager and Budget...

Neurology S. Claiborne Johnston, Daryl R. Gress and James G. Kahn Which unruptured cerebral aneurysms should be treated?: A cost–utility analysis This information is current as of January 25, 2006 http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/full/52/9/1806 located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is Print ISSN: 0028-3878. Online ...

Utility analysis suggests that human resources policies can have an economically significant impact on business organizations. Confidence in such conclusions, however, requires an accurate estimate of SDy. This article provides a validity check on prevailing subjective methods of SDy estimation by directly estimating SDy from unique field data. Using both simulated and field data, we first illu...

background & purpose: in the health sector, in addition to the important consequence of treatment, health system should meet the expectations regarding the desirability of services. expectations and perceptions of patients about the desirability of services play an important role in selecting hospitals, their loyalty to the organization & replanning to purchase. thus the present study has been ...

this study intends to recognize the factors affecting advertising creativity based on stuhlfout and yoo’s model and according to the ideas of creative directors in iran. the research methodology was causal survey method. data were collected from a sample of 90 experts, selected out of 135 based on simple random sampling. the questionnaire prepared by help of different standard questionnaires an...