Health economic decision models often involve a wide-ranging and complicated synthesis of evidence from a number of sources, making design and implementation of such models resource-heavy. When new data become available and reassessment of treatment recommendations is warranted, it may be more efficient to perform a Bayesian update of an existing model than to construct a new model. If the exis...

We investigate the impact of the intrinsicof the resonant poles on the performance of multiring-based optical filters and dispersion-compensating devices. We highlight the role of quality factor by defining figures-of-merit for some specific filter configurations.

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is potentially an important aid to public health decision-making but, with some notable exceptions, its use and impact at the level of individual countries is limited. A number of potential reasons may account for this, among them technical shortcomings associated with the generation of current economic evidence, political expediency, social preferences and sys...

conclusions because there was no significant difference in the effectiveness between hospitals with and without board of trustees, decision-makers must monitor how the commands are carried out to make board of trustees for hospitals and make sure its success in achieving its objectives. results among the five variables related to the effectiveness, safety showed to have the highest weight and m...

previous studies have revealed that the results of most conteroceptive devices, especially iud, show similar patterns at various localities. however, certain differences have also been observed. the present study describes the pattern of iud use effectiveness at aalami-harandi clinic in isphahan over a four year period (march 1976 up to may 1980). when compard with previous study carried out at...

conclusions better understanding of the effectiveness and efficiency mechanism and having valid evaluation required considering specific theories and points in this field. applying a dynamic approach with considering epidemiological concepts and sophisticated statistical models could improve quality of studies in this field. results from a total of 797 articles, 20 were eligible which among the...

Over the past few decades, Usability has emerged as an extremely important quality factor. Many methods have so far been proposed for usability evaluation but they lack in one way or another. This paper proposes a method for software usability quantification using the fuzzy multiple criteria weighted average approach. This approach has been chosen due to the highly unpredictable nature of the a...