Quality assessment of the Portuguese public hospitals: A multiple criteria approach Authors: António Rocha; Ana Sara Costa; José Rui Figueira; Diogo Cunha Ferreira; Rui Cunha Marques   Abstract:The Portuguese National Health Service (SNS) was created to provide universal, equal, and tendentiously free care. There are different levels of care (primary, secondary, continued, and palliative) and […]

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Non-dominated sorting genetic-based algorithm for exploiting a large-sized fuzzy outranking relation Authors: Juan Carlos Leyva López; Jesús Jaime Solano Noriega; José Rui Figueira; Jun Liu; Diego Alonso Gastélum Chavira Abstract: Electre III is a well-known multiple criteria decision aiding method based on pairwise comparisons. However, it cannot be applied to ranking problems involving many alternatives, […]

Pairwise Comparison Tables within the Deck of Cards Method in Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding Authors: Salvatore Corrente; José Rui Figueira; Salvatore Greco Abstract:  This paper deals with an improved version of the deck of cards method to render the construction of ratio and interval scales more “accurate” compared to the ones built in the original version. […]

Operational efficiency vs clinical safety, care appropriateness, timeliness, and access to health care. Authors: Diogo Cunha Ferreira; Alexandre Morais Nunes; Rui Cunha Marques Abstract: Health care systems face resource scarcity that may jeopardise their financial sustainability as well as the quality of delivered health care. In view of that, the association between technical efficiency, access, […]

Using multi-criteria decision analysis to rank European health systems: The Beveridgian financing case. Authors: Miguel Aves Pereira; Inês Freire Machete; Diogo Cunha Ferreira; Rui Cunha Marques Abstract: Health is one of the most fundamental human rights. In that sense, the creation of health systems attempted to provide the population with organisations, institutions, and resources to […]

  Incorporating preference information in a range directional composite indicator: The case of Portuguese public hospitals. Authors: Miguel Pereira; Ana Camanho; José Figueira; Rui Cunha Marques. Presented by Miguel Pereira. Abstract: Understanding the complexity of an age when systems deal with increasing amounts of data is vital to the survival of public and private entities. […]

Public-private partnerships in health care services: Do they outperform public hospitals regarding quality and access? Evidence from Portugal Authors: Diogo Cunha Ferreira; Rui Cunha Marques Abstract: Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are widely spread long-term arrangements between governments and strategic private partner(s). One of their objectives is to reduce the financial pressure on the public treasury with regard […]

The Portuguese generic medicines market: What’s next? Authors: Alexandre Morais Nunes; Diogo Cunha Ferreira; Andreia de Matos; Rui Miranda Julião Abstract: Brand-name medicines have dominated the Portuguese market for several decades with unquestionable exclusivity. This resulted particularly from the absence of a requirement of prescriptions by international non-proprietary name. To promote the enhancement of both efficiency and […]

A robust hierarchical nominal multicriteria classification method based on similarity and dissimilarity Authors: Ana Sara Costa; Salvatore Corrente; Salvatore Greco; José Rui Figueira; José Borbinha Abstract: Cat-SD (Categorization by Similarity-Dissimilarity) is a multiple criteria decision aiding method for dealing with nominal classification problems (predefined and non-ordered categories). Actions are assessed according to multiple criteria and assigned […]