期刊
APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING
卷 78, 期 -, 页码 407-419出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2019.02.001
关键词
Elective surgery patient admission; Multiple criteria decision making; Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set; ORESTE; Chinese public tertiary hospital
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71771156, 71532007]
- Sichuan Province Science and Technology Support, China Project Plan [2016FZ0080]
- Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences in Sichuan Province [LYC18-02, DSWL18-2]
- Spark Project of Innovation at Sichuan University [2018hhs-43]
In public health systems around the world, there are not enough medical resources to provide elective (e.g., scheduled or non-emergency) services for all patients immediately. One feasible solution is to prioritize patients by taking into account a variety of factors, such as disease severity, waiting time, and disease types. This is a typical Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problem. To solve this problem, in this paper, we first conduct an investigation on the admission process, and obtain 16 indicators affecting patients' admission, which form a criteria system. Since there is much vague and uncertain information which can be depicted by the hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set effectively for these indicators, we then apply a powerful MCDM method, named the hesitant fuzzy linguistic ORESTE, to prioritize the elective surgery patient admission in a Chinese public tertiary hospital, the West China Hospital. Robust results are obtained by performing a sensitivity analysis with six scenarios. We also compare the results with those derived by other HFL-MCDM methods. It is illustrated that the hesitant fuzzy linguistic ORESTE can help hospitals flexibly manage the patient admissions. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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