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What is Simple Additive Weighting

Chapter 50
Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
A multicriteria decision-making technique consisting in assigning to each alternative a sum of values, each one associated to the corresponding evaluation criterion, and weighted according to the relative importance of the corresponding criterion.
Published in Chapter:
A Decision Based Support System Based on GIS Technology
Vito Albino (Politecnico di Bari, Italy), Giuseppe Digregorio (Politecnico di Bari, Italy), and Guido Sechi (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch050
Abstract
The continuous increase of the national expense for the healthcare services, the necessity to adjust the performance of the service of the National Healthcare System to the change of the demand of health coming from the population, and the necessity to evolve towards a logic of integration along a “continuum of care,” push for the reorganization of healthcare services inside the local healthcare district.
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