Background: In Spain, there are substantial variations in the utilization of health resources among regions. Because the need for surgery differs in patients with appropriate surgical indication, introducing a prioritization system might be beneficial. Our objective was to assess geographical variations in the impact of applying a prioritization system in patients on the waiting list for catara...

When researchers start doing a literature search, they often initially find an unmanageably large number of potentially relevant articles, and are forced to refine their searches. Faced with this information overload, prioritization offers an alternative to search refinement, by ordering the articles so that the ones most likely to be relevant are at the top of the list. Effective prioritizatio...

Test case prioritization techniques let testers order their test cases so that those with higher priority, according to some criterion, are executed earlier than those with lower priority. In previous work, we examined a variety of prioritization techniques to determine their ability to improve the rate of fault detection of test suites. Our studies showed that the rate of fault detection of te...

We propose a framework for assessing and realizing the benefits from IT investment and an integrative process for prioritizing, justifying, and evaluating results of IT implementations. IT investments can drive changes in business processes. Our framework emphasizes identifying those changes so that responsibility for realizing benefits (financial and non-financial) can be assigned and evaluate...

Requirement elicitation is one of significant part of software engineering activity. It is very difficult to develop successful software without involvement of the quality stakeholder from the client side. Stakeholder prioritization is one of the indispensable processes in requirements engineering. When a project commences, there might be many stakeholders but minority of them would be the key ...

BACKGROUND Currently, zoonoses account for 58% to 61% of all communicable diseases causing illness in humans globally and up to 75% of emerging human pathogens. Although the impact of zoonoses on animal health and public health in North America is significant, there has been no published research involving health professionals on the prioritization of zoonoses in this region. METHODOLOGY/PRIN...

An allocation rule that prioritizes registered donors increases the willingness to register for organ donation, as laboratory experiments show. In public opinion, however, this priority rule faces repugnance. We explore the discrepancy by implementing a vote on the rule in a donation experiment, and we also elicit opinion poll-like views. We find that two-thirds of the participants voted for th...