Multi-criteria decision making - An approach to setting priorities in health care

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 3345-3354

  Nobre, Flávio Fonseca ^a   Trotta, Lilian Terezinha Ferreira ^a   Gomes, Luiz Flávio Autran Monteiro ^b  

^a Cryopraxis Criobiologia Limited   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PURCHASING; LAPAROSCOPY; MAMMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0033573277     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19991215)18:23<3345::AID-SIM321>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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