Evaluating Organ Donation Decision in ICU Patients’ Families by Analytic Network Process Approach

Table 1

Pairwise comparison for AHP or ANP preferences.

Importance	Definition	Explanation
1	Equal importance	Two activities contribute equally to the objective.
2	Weak or slight
3	Moderate importance	Experience and judgment slightly favor one activity over the other.
4	Moderate plus
5	Strong importance	Experience and judgment strongly favor one activity over the other.
6	Strong plus
7	Very strong or demonstrated importance	One activity is very strongly favoured over the other; its dominance is demonstrated in practice.
8	Very, very strong
9	Extreme importance	The evidence favoring one activity over the other is of the highest possible order of affirmation.