BACKGROUND One of the barriers identified in palliative care research is the lack of common criteria to describe the population. AIM The aim of this Delphi process was to obtain consensus on a basic set of core variables to describe or classify a palliative care cancer population. DESIGN AND SETTING This was a five-step international Delphi exercise. A total of 117 experts were invited to p...

We built and tested a decision tool that organisations can use to properly select one business process maturity model (BPMM) out of many maturity models. This prototype consists of a novel questionnaire with decision criteria for BPMM selection, linked to a unique data set of 69 BPMMs. 14 criteria were defined by an international Delphi study, and weighed by the Analytical Hierarchy Process. Ca...

A developing country like India encounters challenges like exponential increase in population and rising per capita energy consumption which demands an optimum usage of available energy resources. Currently the energy demands are mostly met by non renewable energy sources, a system that puts a tremendous pressure on the economy and causes a serious threat to the environment, flora and fauna. He...

developing of mobile technologies in the field of health create a new branch of e-health called mobile-health. the goal of this study is evaluation of communications infrastructure for mobile-health. for this purpose, fuzzy analytic hierarchy process is used for modeling and ranking the criterions and applications. three main criteria in mobile communication network namely, data transmission, a...

Given the reduced freshwater supplies across the world, seawater desalination is one of the appropriate methods available for producing freshwater. Selecting an optimal location is crucial in the installation of these plants owing to the environmental problems they cause. The present study was conducted to identify optimal locations for installing desalination Plants in the coastal areas of sou...