Table 6.

Results of example pairwise comparison process. ^*

	Risk of side effects (0.31)	Ease of admin (0.16)	Effectiveness (0.36)	Price (0.20)	Score Distrib synthesis	Score Ideal synthesis
Drug A	0.31	0.25	0.37	0.60	39.5%	38.0%
Drug B	0.19	0.375	0.41	0.12	29.2%	30.6%
Drug C	0.50	0.375	0.24	0.28	31.3%	31.4%
CR	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.04	0.01	0.01

^*The numbers in parentheses under the criteria indicate their priorities relative to the goal. The numbers in the columns indicate the judged relative abilities of the three options to meet the criteria. Abbreviations: Ease of admin = ease of administration; CR = consistency ratio; distrib = distributive