Title
A rough based multi-criteria evaluation method for healthcare waste disposal location decisions
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-2020
DOI
10.1016/j.cie.2020.106394
Abstract
Healthcare waste disposal management is one of the biggest day-to-day challenges faced by healthcare providers and urban municipalities. Poor management of healthcare waste can cause serious problems for healthcare workers, patients, and the general public. Healthcare providers and urban planners usually struggle with the action of locating an appropriate waste disposal center in a municipal area. Healthcare waste disposal location planning is a difficult task due to complexities inherent in the evaluation of alternative locations according to multiple and often competing criteria. We propose a new best-worst method with interval rough numbers (IRN) for healthcare waste disposal location decisions. A new IRN Dombi-Bonferroni (IRNDBM) means the operator is also introduced to process the rough data because of the unavailability of precise information. A case study at a private hospital in Madrid is presented to demonstrate the applicability and exhibit the efficacy of the proposed multi-criteria evaluation method.
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Yazdani, Morteza; Tavana, Madjid; Pamučar, Dragan; and Chatterjee, Prasenjit, "A rough based multi-criteria evaluation method for healthcare waste disposal location decisions" (2020). Business Systems and Analytics Faculty Work. 59.
https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/bsa_faculty/59
Comments
Yazdani, M., Tavana, M., Pamučar, D. and Chatterjee, P. (2020) ‘A Rough Based Multi-Criteria Evaluation Method for Healthcare Waste Disposal Location Decisions,’ Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 143, Article 106394.