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Application of Multi-Criteria Decision Approach in the Assessment of Medical Waste Management Systems in Nigeria
2021
Sustainability
This study has developed a novel assessment framework for managing medical wastes, which is curated from the technical guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO). ...
Disposal methods investigated were mostly open burning and incessant dumping for most public health care centers. ...
Acknowledgments: The authors appreciate the Chancellor and Management of Covenant University for supporting the article publication charge and making this medium available for research publications. ...
doi:10.3390/su131910914
fatcat:5unktrqijnfuxnd3b5bincgrlq
A review of multi-criteria decision-making applications to solve energy management problems: Two decades from 1995 to 2015
2017
Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews
Furthermore, papers were categorized based on the authors, publication year, nationality of authors, region, technique and application, number of criteria, research purpose, gap and contribution, solution ...
The main of objective of this study is to provide a review on the application and use of decision making approaches in regard to energy management problems. ...
Suggested a novel decision making
approach based on ANP for assess and
rank the criteria of environmental
management system options in for-
profit organizations. ...
doi:10.1016/j.rser.2016.12.053
fatcat:pz7bhepftbb6dd4pij3hpwlg6a
Risk factors in the process industry by using MCDM methods: Literature from 2014 to 2019
2019
International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology
So, the main aim of the review paper is to identify the most influential risks in the process industry by using Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods. ...
To overcome this issue, based on the risk percentage we prioritize the risks. ...
Evaluating
health-care waste treatment technologies using a hybrid multi-criteria
decision making model. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews,
41, 932-942.
24.
H. Akdag, T. Kalaycı, S. ...
doi:10.35940/ijeat.a1054.1291s419
fatcat:7xum6ztcqrauxc7t7d3otvoeti
Evidences and Criteria Related to the Hospital Service Quality and Safety
2014
Value in Health
Multi-criteria decision approaches may provide a tool to guide explicit allocation decisions. ...
objeCtives: There are challenges to assess the current situation of health care organizations' waste management by the level and to formulate methods for further improvement. ...
doi:10.1016/j.jval.2014.08.492
pmid:27203009
fatcat:p3xkqf3xozhzvhe7efi2vxpz6q
Assessment of Healthcare Waste Treatment Alternatives Using an Integrated Decision Support Framework
2018
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
Health-care waste management HCW treatment technology selection Intuitionistic fuzzy sets DEMATEL ANP AHP ID:p0065 Healthcare waste (HCW) management has become a major environmental and public-health concern ...
Selection of the optimal treatment technology for HCW is regarded as an intricate multi-criteria decision-making problem involving conflicting and intertwined qualitative as well as quantitative evaluative ...
[23] developed an MCDM technique based on multi-level hierarchy structure and fuzzy logic to assess the waste disposal technologies. Liu et al. ...
doi:10.2991/ijcis.2018.125905685
fatcat:agb2bzkzjngrrlzce2rrdmdpde
Assessing the Preferences for Criteria in Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in Treatments for Rare Diseases
2020
Frontiers in Public Health
Increasingly, multi-criteria decision analysis has gained importance as a method by which to assess the value of orphan drugs. ...
Method: Using key MCDA criteria for orphan drugs reported in the literature, we developed an interactive web-based survey tool to capture preferences for different criteria from a general stakeholder sample ...
Background: Increasingly, multi-criteria decision analysis has gained importance as a method by which to assess the value of orphan drugs. ...
doi:10.3389/fpubh.2020.00162
pmid:32457865
pmcid:PMC7225315
fatcat:m3r3vmxqrreypeam4ewd5rkxqe
Assessing value in health care: using an interpretive classification system to understand existing practices based on a systematic review
2019
BMC Health Services Research
Implementing adequate strategies to assess the value of health services plays a central role in the effort to deal with the financial pressures faced by health care systems worldwide. ...
value estimates; 2) use of disease-specific or generic criteria; 3) reliance on process-based or outcomes-based consideration; and 4) type of input and evidence considered. ...
To provide transparency and consistency for decision making processes.-To combine multiple criteria in a single judgment of a health care technology by multiple stakeholders. Contextual information ...
doi:10.1186/s12913-019-4405-6
pmid:31409369
pmcid:PMC6693163
fatcat:xh3zjpkwj5apte4wgvvsztwlyy
Landfill Site Selection for Medical Waste Using an Integrated SWARA-WASPAS Framework Based on Spherical Fuzzy Set
2021
Sustainability
This study aims to propose a novel approach to selecting the optimal landfill for medical waste using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methods. ...
Selecting suitable locations for the disposal of medical waste is a serious matter. ...
Preliminaries The purpose of this study is to present a novel decision approach based on spherical fuzzy theory to select a suitable landfill for medical waste. ...
doi:10.3390/su132413950
fatcat:4lijz4ko5zgd3lrfwgxt3dt5l4
Prioritization of public services for digitalization using fuzzy Z-AHP and fuzzy Z-WASPAS
2021
Complex & Intelligent Systems
After obtaining criteria weights using fuzzy Z-AHP, health care services, waste disposal department, public transportation, information services, social care services, and citizen complaints resolution ...
Results show that health care services have dominant importance for the digitalization among public services. ...
AHP is one of the most used multi-criteria decision-making methods to weight the effects of the criteria and sub-criteria for a determined goal. ...
doi:10.1007/s40747-020-00239-z
fatcat:cjwuodnghza7pjx2nvm4utg6uy
Reverse logistics research of municipal hazardous waste: a literature review
2021
Environment, Development and Sustainability
of hazardous waste on public health and environmental sustainability. ...
There are a great number of studies in the extant literature on RLMHW, with many and diverse research topics; however, a concise and complete overview of the research works already conducted in this particular ...
and Matrix Approach Chauhan and Singh (2016) Location of healthcare waste disposal facility Hybrid multi-criteria decision-making method approach Wilson et al. (2016) Determine Site for Radioactive Waste ...
doi:10.1007/s10668-021-01526-6
pmid:34099959
pmcid:PMC8172365
fatcat:l4whrozhkjgabh4r3xy4qkvwuq
Developing sanitation planning options: A tool for systematic consideration of novel technologies and systems
2020
Journal of Environmental Management
makes international data accessible for more empirical decision making; (iv) it enables decisions based on strategic objectives in line with the sustainable development goals; (v) it allows to prioritise ...
: a set of technologies to be looked at, decision objectives for sustainable sanitation, screening criteria to evalute technology appropriateness, and about the technologies and the casea. ...
Acknowledgements This work is funded by the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development through the Engineering for Development (E4D) programme of the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (ETH) Zurich. ...
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111004
pmid:32778289
fatcat:ziupou4tfzduhce3myowhb6am4
A New Decision-Making Model based on Plithogenic Set for Supplier Selection
2021
Computers Materials & Continua
The choice of supplier is a multicriteria decision making (MCDM) to obtain the optimal decision based on a group of criteria. ...
This paper proposes an integrated multi-attribute border approximation area comparison (MABAC) based on the best-worst method (BWM), plithogenic set, and rough numbers. ...
Also, to select the best treatment technology in health-care waste (HCW) management, a model based on MCDM methods was proposed [12] . ...
doi:10.32604/cmc.2021.013092
fatcat:to4oqiadkrfcvbsqd6em65t4pa
Waste treatment: an environmental, economic and social analysis with a new group fuzzy PROMETHEE approach
2016
Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
Acknowledgement This research has been partly funded by the EU as part of the project LIFE08 ENV/IT/000388 RELS -Innovative chain for energy recovery from waste in natural parks (for more details see www.life-rels.eu ...
Therefore, a group multi-criteria decision method for MSWM is needed. ...
Criteria assessment Based on the LCAs, LCCs and SLCAs, twenty-one criteria are selected (see Figure 4 ). ...
doi:10.1007/s10098-015-1087-6
fatcat:bquidad7gvehfgcr5ckm3cloom
Interval-Valued Pythagorean Fuzzy Similarity Measure-Based Complex Proportional Assessment Method for Waste-to-Energy Technology Selection
2022
Processes
This study introduces an integrated decision-making methodology to choose the best "waste-to-energy (WTE)" technology for "municipal solid waste (MSW)" treatment under the "interval-valued Pythagorean ...
Next, a weighting procedure based on the presented similarity measures is proposed to obtain the criteria weight. ...
Acknowledgments: The authors are grateful for the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. ...
doi:10.3390/pr10051015
fatcat:6hkcsd7djbhetctfnn2d6ktu44
Assessment of the Solid Waste Disposal Method during COVID-19 Period Using the ELECTRE III Method in an Interval-Valued q-Rung Orthopair Fuzzy Approach
2022
CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences
scenario like the COVID-19 pandemic, the project automatically allows for a larger number of criteria, all of which are dealt with using fuzzy Multi-Criteria Group Decision Making (MCGDM) methods. ...
The ELECTRE III (ELimination Et Choice Translating REality-III) approach, which is a novel decision-making strategy for determining the best way to dispose and reduce garbage by combining traditional ELECTRE ...
Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is a crucial technique in decision-making assessment. An MCDM problem involves alternatives, criteria, criteria weights, and a decision matrix of alternatives. ...
doi:10.32604/cmes.2022.019442
fatcat:ds5zrjsiara5hdygofdeuny7zq
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