scholarly journals Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Examining Healthcare Professionals’ Assessments of Risk Factors

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (05) ◽  
pp. 435-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Bath ◽  
N. Pendleton ◽  
M. Bracale ◽  
L. Pecchia
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Risk Factors For Falls ◽  
Hierarchy Process

SummaryBackground: A gap exists between evidence-based medicine and clinical-practice. Every day, healthcare professionals (HCPs) combine empirical evidence and subjective experience in order to maximize the effectiveness of interventions. Consequently, it is important to understand how HCPs interpret the research evidence and apply it in everyday practice. We focused on the prevention of falls, a common cause of injury-related morbidity and mortality in later life, for which there is a wide range of known risk factors.Objectives: To use the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to investigate the opinions of HCPs in prioritizing risk factors for preventing falls.Methods: We used the AHP to develop a hierarchy of risk factors for falls based on the knowledge and experience of experts. We submitted electronic questionnaires via the web, in order to reach a wider number of respondents. With a web service, we pooled the results and weighted the coherence and the experience of respondents.Results: Overall, 232 respondents participated in the study: 32 in the technical pilot study, nine in the scientific pilot study and 191 respondents in the main study. We identified a hierarchy of 35 risk factors, organized in two categories and six sub-categories.Conclusions: The hierarchy of risk factors provides further insights into clinicians’ perceptions of risk factors for falls. This hierarchy helps understand the relative importance that clinicians place on risk factors for falls in older people and why evidence-based guidelines are not always followed. This information may be helpful in improving intervention programs and in understanding how clinicians prioritize multiple risk factors in individual patients. The AHP method allows the opinions of HCPs to be investigated, giving appropriate weight to their coherence, background and experience.

scholarly journals WEB-BASED SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING RISK FACTORS FOR FALLS IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING ELDERLY PEOPLE USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leandro Pecchia ◽  
Peter A. Bath ◽  
Neil Pendleton ◽  
Marcelo Bracale
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Older People ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
The Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Risk Factors For Falls ◽  
Hierarchy Process

<p>Falls occur frequently among older people and represent the most common cause of injury-related morbidity and mortality in later life. Preventing falls is an important way to reduce injuries, hospitalizations, and injury-related morbidity and mortality among older people. The research literature has identified hundreds of risk factors for falls among elderly people. Prioritizing risk factors for falls is useful for designing effective and efficacious prevention programs. The aim of this study was to use the Analytic Hierarchy Process to develop a hierarchy of risk factors for falls based on the knowledge and experience of experts working in this field. We designed and developed a web portal for participants to submit responses to electronic questionnaires in order to reach the highest number of respondents quickly and to reduce errors in responding. We contacted the person responsible for the Falls sections of four scientific societies. Finally, we propose a correction method to modify respondents’ relative importance on based on the coherence of their responses, in order not to exclude experts who had submitted the questionnaire twice.</p><p>http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v2i2.61</p>

scholarly journals Risk Factor Assessment of Software Usability Using Fuzzy-Analytic Hierarchy Process Method

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Afriyanti Dwi Kartika ◽  
Sofia Umaroh
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Software Usability ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Software Quality Models ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process Method ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Software adds significant value to a wide range of products and services. Thus, in the process of software development, maintaining the quality of the software is an important aspect that the developer must do. In several software quality models, usability is stated as one of significant factor that gives impact to software performance. The existence of problems in usability lead to less useful of the software. This research was conducted to assess software usability risk factors which derived from the attributes and sub-attributes of usability, that affecting the quality of the software negatively. The importance of risk factors assessed by using fuzzy-Analytic Hierarchy Process. This risk assessment on software usability made it possible to process the evaluation of the respondents defined by linguistic format, in which information can be processed from insufficient data, subjective, inaccurate or vague. As result, this assessment showed dominant factors which were considered as the source of the usability software risk.

Risk assessment using the analytic hierarchy process while planning and prior to constructing wind projects in Jordan

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-293
Author(s):  
Ammar Alkhalidi ◽  
Sufyan Tahat ◽  
Mohammed Smadi ◽  
Bahaa Migdady ◽  
Hazem Kaylani
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Wind Energy ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Emergency Plans ◽  
Construction Operation ◽  
Hierarchy Process

The exploitation of wind energy for generating power is taking a major role in the electricity consumption globally. Proper utilization of wind resource could maximize its capacity factor and minimize electricity costs. This article will provide a tool for minimizing wind energy project risks for further investment to consider and choosing the best location in Jordan. For this process, the following risk factors were first identified: strategic management errors, transport, construction, operation and maintenance, marketing and policy risks. Then, using analytic hierarchy process, a complete risk assessment model was built and applied to two alternatives, Ras Moneef and Al-Fujaij. The results showed Al-Fujaij as a better potential location with relative importance to the factors compared with Ras Moneef. Among these risk factors, strategic and business risk have the highest impact, which can be mitigated by performing effective management, accurate contracting, and conducting emergency plans. It is believed that such results could benefit the project stakeholders to be aware of the risk items to be invested in while considering the project funding limits. The proposed framework also enables decision makers to create a reasonable fund and set achievable objectives for the project.

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