Table 3 List of all included studies
Author | Year | Title | Journal | Volume | Issue | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ajami S, Ketabi S | 2012 | Performance evaluation of medical records departments by analytical hierarchy process (AHP) approach in the selected hospitals in Isfahan | Journal of Medical Systems | 36 | 3 | 1165–1171 |
Angelucci E et al. | 2008 | Italian Society of Hematology practice guidelines for the management of iron overload in thalassemia major and related disorders | Hematology journal | 93 | 5 | 741–752 |
Bahadori M et al. | 2014 | Assessing the service quality of Iran military hospitals: Joint Commission International standards and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique | Journal of education and health promotion | 3 | 98 | |
Balestra G et al. | 2007 | AHP for the acquisition of biomedical instrumentation | Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society-Conference proceedings: 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE | 3581–3584 | ||
Barosi G et al. | 2007 | A unified definition of clinical resistance-intolerance to hydroxyurea in essential thrombocythemia: results of a consensus process by an intl. working group | Leukemia | 21 | 2 | 277–280 |
Basoglu N, Daim TU, Topacan U | 2012 | Determining patient preferences for remote monitoring | Journal of Medical Systems | 36 | 3 | 1389–1401 |
Baykasoğlu A, Dereli T, Yılankırkan N | 2009 | Application of cost-benefit analysis for surgical gown and drape selection: a case study | American Journal of Infection Control | 37 | 3 | 215–226 |
Bi Y, Lai D, Yan H | 2010 | Synthetic evaluation of the effect of health promotion: impact of a UNICEF project in 40 poor western counties of China | Public Health | 124 | 7 | 376–391 |
Brent A C et al. | 2007 | Application of the analytical hierarchy process to establish health care waste management systems that minimise infection risks in developing countries | European Journal of Operational Research | 181 | 403–424 | |
Cabrera-Barona P et al. | 2015 | A multi-criteria spatial deprivation index to support health inequality analyses | International journal of health geographics | 14 | 11 | |
Cancela J et al. | 2015 | Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to understand the most important factors to design and evaluate a telehealth system for Parkinson’s disease | BMC medical informatics and decision making | 15 | Suppl 3 | S7 |
Carter KJ et al. | 1999 | Analysis of three decision-making methods: a breast cancer patient as a model | Medical Decision Making | 19 | 1 | 49–57 |
Castro F et al. | 1996 | Sequential test selection in the analysis of abdominal pain | Medical Decision Making | 16 | 2 | 178–183 |
Chang PY et al. | 2006 | Factors influencing medical students’ choice of specialty | Journal of the Formosan Medical Association = Taiwan yi zhi | 105 | 6 | 489–496 |
Cheever MA et al. | 2009 | The prioritization of cancer antigens: a national cancer institute pilot project for the acceleration of translational research | Clinical Cancer Research | 15 | 17 | 5323–5337 |
Chen L et al. | 2014 | Development of a decision support engine to assist patients with hospital selection | Journal of medical systems | 38 | 6 | 59 |
Cho KT, Kim SM | 2003 | Selecting medical devices and materials for development in Korea: the analytic hierarchy process approach | International Journal of Health Planning and Management | 18 | 2 | 161–174 |
Chung KP et al. | 2013 | Application of the analytic hierarchy process in the performance measurement of colorectal cancer care for the design of a pay-for-performance program in Taiwan | International Journal for Quality in Health Care | 25 | 1 | 81–91 |
Cook DR, Staschak S, Green WT | 1990 | Equitable allocation of livers for orthotopic transplantation: an application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process | European Journal of Operational Research | 48 | 1 | 49–56 |
Czaja S et al. | 2003 | A methodology for describing and decomposing complex psychosocial and behavioral interventions | Psychology and Aging | 18 | 3 | 385–395 |
da Rocha LS, Sloane EB, Bassani JWM | 2005 | Optimal Medical Equipment Maintenance Service Proposal Decision Support System combining Activity Based Costing (ABC) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) | Conference proceedings: 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society | 7 | 7 | 103–106 |
Danner M et al. | 2011 | Integrating patients’ views into health technology assessment: AHP as a method to elict patient preferences | International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care | 27 | 4 | 369–375 |
Dey P K, Hariharan S, Clegg B | 2006 | Measuring the operational performance of intensive care units using the analytic hierarchy process approach | International Journal of Operations&Production Management | 26 | 8 | 849–865 |
Diaz-Ledezma C et al. | 2014 | Diagnosis of Periprosthetic Joint Infection in Medicare Patients: Multicriteria Decision Analysis | Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research | URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11999-014-3492-2 Accessed: 15 Feb 2014 | ||
Diaz-Ledezma C et al. | 2014 | Diagnosis of Periprosthetic Joint Infection in Medicare Patients: Multicriteria Decision Analysis | Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research | 472 | 11 | 3275–3284 |
Diaz-Ledezma C, Parvizi J | 2013 | Surgical approaches for cam femoroacetabular impingement: the use of multicriteria decision analysis | Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research | 471 | 8 | 2509–2516 |
Dolan JG | 2000 | Involving patients in decisions regarding preventive health interventions using the analytic hierarchy process | Health Expectations | 3 | 1 | 37–45 |
Dolan JG | 1995 | Are patients capable of using the analytic hierarchy process and willing to use it to help make clinical decisions | Medical Decision Making | 15 | 1 | 76–80 |
Dolan JG | 1990 | Can decision analysis adequately represent clinical problems? | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 43 | 3 | 277–284 |
Dolan JG | 1989 | Medical decision making using the analytic hierarchy process: choice of initial antimicrobial therapy for acute pyelonephritis | Medical Decision Making | 9 | 1 | 51–56 |
Dolan JG et al. | 2013 | Patients’ Preferences and Priorities Regarding Colorectal Cancer Screening | Medical Decision Making | 33 | 1 | 59–70 |
Dolan JG, Bordley DR | 1994 | Isoniazid prophylaxis-The Importance of Individual Values | Medical Decision Making | 14 | 1 | 1–8 |
Dolan JG, Bordley DR | 1993 | Involving patients in complex decisions about their care: an approach using the analytic hierarchy process | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 8 | 4 | 204–209 |
Dolan JG, Bordley DR, Miller H | 1993 | Diagnostic strategies in the management of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding: patient and physician preferences | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 8 | 10 | 525–529 |
Dolan JG, Frisina S | 2002 | Randomized controlled trial of a patient decision aid for colorectal cancer screening | Medical Decision Making | 22 | 2 | 125–139 |
Dolan JG, Iadarola S | 2008 | Risk communication formats for low probability events--- an exploratory study of patient preferences | BMC medical informatics and decision making [electronic resource] | URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2330036/ Accessed 31 Dec 2013. | ||
Dolan JG, Isselhardt BJ, Cappuccio JD | 1989 | The analyic hierarchy process in medical decision making: a tutorial | Medical Decision Making | 9 | 1 | 40-50 |
Dou L et al. | 2015 | An evaluation system for financial compensation in traditional Chinese medicine services | Complementary therapies in medicine | 23 | 5 | 637–643 |
Eden KB et al. | 2009 | Patients were more consistent in randomized trial at prioritizing childbirth preferences using graphic-numeric than verbal formats | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 62 | 4 | 415–424 |
Fang LF, Tung HH | 2010 | Comparison of nurse practitioner job core competency expectations of nurse managers, nurse practitioners, and physicians in Taiwan | Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners | 22 | 8 | 409–416 |
Guariguata L, Whiting D | 2011 | The International Diabetes Federation diabetes atlas methodology for estimating global and national prevalence of diabetes in adults | Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice | 94 | 3 | 322–332 |
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Hariharan S et al. | 2005 | Application of analytic hierarchy process for measuring and comparing the global performance of intensive care units | Journal of Critical Care | 20 | 2 | 117–125 |
Hariharan S et al. | 2004 | A new tool for measurement of process-based performance of multispecialty tertiary care hospitals | International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance | 17 | 6 | 302–312 |
Hilgerink MP et al. | 2011 | Assessment of the added value of the Twente Photoacoustic Mammoscope in breast cancer diagnosis | Medical Devices: Evidence and Research | 4 | 107–115 | |
Hou D et al. | 2014 | A real-time, dynamic early-warning model based on uncertainty analysis and risk assessment for sudden water pollution accidents | Environmental science and pollution research international | 21 | 14 | 8878–8892 |
Hsu HC et al. | 2010 | Constructing area-level indicators of successful ageing in Taiwan | Health and Social Care in the Community | 18 | 1 | 70–81 |
Hu H et al. | 2010 | Establishment and evaluation of a model of a community health service in an underdeveloped area of China | Public Health | 124 | 4 | 206–217 |
Hummel JM et al. | 2012 | Predicting the Health Economic Performance of new non-fusion Surgery in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis | Orthopaedic Research Society | 30 | 9 | 1453–1458 |
Hummel JM et al. | 2005 | A multicriteria decision analysis of augmentative treatment of upper limbs in persons with tetraplegia | Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development | 42 | 5 | 635–544 |
Hummel JM et al. | 2000 | Medical technology assessment: the use of the analytic hierarchy process as a tool for multidisciplinary evaluation of medical devices | International Journal of Artificial Organs | 23 | 11 | 782–787 |
Hsu JC et al. | 2015 | Net clinical benefit of oral anticoagulants: a multiple criteria decision analysis | PLoS One | 10 | 4 | e0124806 |
Hsu JC, Tang DH, Lu CY | 2015 | Risk-benefit assessment of oral phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors for treatment of erectile dysfunction: a multiple criteria decision analysis | International journal of clinical practice | 69 | 4 | 436–443 |
Ijzerman MJ, van Til JA, Bridges JFP | 2012 | A Comparison of Analytic Hierarchy Process and Conjoint Analysis Methods in assessing treatment alternatives for stroke Rehabilitation | The Patient | 5 | 1 | 45–56 |
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Jaberidoost M et al. | 2015 | Pharmaceutical supply chain risk assessment in Iran using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and simple additive weighting (SAW) methods | Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice | 8 | 1 | 9 |
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Joshi V et al. | 2011 | Empirical investigation of radiologists’ priorities for PACS selection: an analytical hierarchy process approach | Journal of Digital Imaging | 24 | 4 | 700–708 |
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