Construction of equipment evaluation index system of emergency medical rescue based on Delphi method and analytic hierarchy process

Analytic hierarchy process and Delphi method were commonly used to construct index system for com-prehensive evaluation. The combination of the two different methods was helpful to solve the problems of unreasonable selection of elements, unclear meaning of elements, unsystematic and incorrect relation-ship between elements, unreliable quality of evaluation results and so on. The above methods were applied to build the evaluation index of materials and equipment of emergency medical rescue team (EMTs), which ensured that the evaluation index system met the requirements of systematicness, stan-dardization and credibility, and could help to timely find and correct the problems existing in materials and equipment of disaster EMTs. (c) 2022 THE AUTHORS. Published by Elsevier BV on behalf of Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams Uni-versity. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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Analytic hierarchy process and Delphi method were combined to construct index system for comprehensive evaluation. The combined methods effectively solved issues related to element selection, meaning, relationship, and the reliability of evaluation results. The evaluation index system for emergency medical rescue team materials and equipment met the requirements and helped identify and correct existing problems.