Application of decision making and fuzzy sets theory to evaluate the healthcare and medical problems: A review of three decades of research with recent developments

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Highlights:

• The applications of decision making techniques in healthcare and medical industry are reviewed.

• We evaluated 202 published studies selected from 85 high-ranking journals.

• Selected studies were classified into nine application areas.

• AHP and fuzzy AHP techniques were the most frequently used decision-making technique.

摘要

•The applications of decision making techniques in healthcare and medical industry are reviewed.•We evaluated 202 published studies selected from 85 high-ranking journals.•Selected studies were classified into nine application areas.•AHP and fuzzy AHP techniques were the most frequently used decision-making technique.

论文关键词:Environmental healthcare,Healthcare technology,Multiple criteria decision making,Medical industry,Medical equipment

论文评审过程:Received 18 October 2018, Revised 16 June 2019, Accepted 1 July 2019, Available online 2 July 2019, Version of Record 8 July 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.07.002