Combined medical quality assessment using the evidential reasoning approach

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Highlights：

• A multiple criteria medical quality assessment framework is proposed.

• The evidential reasoning approach is applied to combined medical quality assessment.

• A method for converting numerical indicators to qualitative grades is proposed.

• A case study of the quality assessment framework and methodology is presented.

摘要

•A multiple criteria medical quality assessment framework is proposed.•The evidential reasoning approach is applied to combined medical quality assessment.•A method for converting numerical indicators to qualitative grades is proposed.•A case study of the quality assessment framework and methodology is presented.

论文关键词：Medical quality assessment,Quality indicator,Expert judgment,Patient feedback,The evidential reasoning approach

论文评审过程：Available online 20 March 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2015.03.009