Asmaa Ahmed Mohamed Kamel <br/><br/>
Investigating the appropriateness of the Analytic Hierarchy Process ( AHP ) to support decisions in clinical engineering :   An application to equipment replacement / scrapping decision /  
 التحقيق فى مدى ملائمة عملية التسلسل الهرمى التحليلية ( AHP ) على دعم القرارات فى الهندسة الإكلينيكية :   تطبيق على قرار استبدال المعدات أو تكهينها 
Asmaa Ahmed Mohamed Kamel ; Supervised Bassel Mohamed Sobhi Tawfik 
 - Cairo :   Asmaa Ahmed Mohamed Kamel ,   2012 
 - 171P. :   charts ;   30cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of System and Biomedical Engineering 
<br/><br/> In this tsesis we aimed at determining the appropriateness of the Analytic Hierarchy Process ( AHP ) to support the decision of considering medical equipment replacement or scrapping . The AHP was chosen as it can be used for decisions involving tangibles and intangibles while dealing with both in the same way , arrange decision criteria in a hierachical form and provide quantitative results 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>AHP  Equipment replacement  Multi - Criteria decision support