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

Source: [12].