INTRODUCTION We prospectively evaluated health-related quality of life (HRQoL) through the gastrointestinal quality of life index (GIQLI) as a system to prioritize patients on the waiting list for laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) and its correlation with a linear prioritization system developed in the General and Gastrointestinal Surgery Institute of Clínica Quirón in Valencia. MATERIAL AND ...

Test case prioritization involves scheduling test cases in an order that increases the effectiveness in achieving some performance goals. One of the most important performance goals is the rate of fault detection. In this chapter a new prioritization technique has been proposed for system level Test Case Prioritization (TCP) from software requirement specification, to improve user satisfaction ...

Planning for the remediation of multiple threats is crucial to ensure the long term persistence of biodiversity. Limited conservation budgets require prioritizing which management actions to implement and where. Systematic conservation planning traditionally assumes that all the threats in priority sites are abated (fixed prioritization approach). However, abating only the threats affecting the...

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...

OBJECTIVE To describe the views of people, 65 years and over, receiving continuous public care and service, on prioritization and resource allocation in health care, in relation to gender, age, housing, health-related quality of life (QoL) and degree of activities of daily living (ADL) dependency. BACKGROUND How older people receiving continuous public care and service view prioritization and...

Prioritization decisions in general aim at conducting assessment of several alternatives that are characterized by multiple conflicting attributes, which are intertwined by the competing preferences of multiple assessors. These assessments personifying various forms of ambiguity such as uncertainty, ignorance, vagueness and fuzziness have to be aggregated to generate reliable collective priorit...