Research Article
Redesign of the Attention Process of Patients with Rheumatologic Diseases: Assessing the Performance with Analytic Hierarchy Process
Table 1
AHP: the fundamental scale.
| Numeric scale | Verbal scale | Comments |
| 1 | Equal importance | Two activities contribute equally to the objective | 3 | Moderate importance of one over another | Experience and judgment favor one activity over another | 5 | Essential or strong importance | Experience and judgment strongly favor one activity over another | 7 | Very strong importance | An activity is strongly favored and its dominance is demonstrated in practice | 9 | Extreme importance | The evidence favoring one activity over another is of the highest possible order of affirmation | 2, 4, 6, 8 | Intermediate values | When compromise is needed in judgments |
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Source: [12].
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