Assessment of health-care waste disposal methods using a VIKOR-based fuzzy multi-criteria decision making method

Liu, Hu‐Chen; Wu, Jing; Li, Ping

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2013.08.006

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“…Table 6, presented the VIKOR papers addressed within Health-Care Fields based on author (s) and year, technique and approach, type of study, application area and scope and study purpose. Liu et al [159] assessed the health-care waste disposal based on fuzzy VIKOR and Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA), Chang [160] evaluated hospital service by employing the fuzzy VIKOR, Lu et al [161] improved and assessed of RFID adoption based on VIKOR, DEMATEL and ANP, Liu et al [162] combined the fuzzy VIKOR, fuzzy TOPSIS, 2-tuple DEMATEL and MULTIMOORA for evaluation of health-care waste. In total, five past papers used the VIKOR technique in fields of Health-Care Fields which presented in Table 6.…”

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VIKOR Technique: A Systematic Review of the State of the Art Literature on Methodologies and Applications

Mardani

Zavadskas

Govindan³

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:The main objective of this paper is to present a systematic review of the VlseKriterijuska Optimizacija I Komoromisno Resenje (VIKOR) method in several application areas such as sustainability and renewable energy. This study reviewed a total of 176 papers, published in 2004 to 2015, from 83 high-ranking journals; most of which were related to Operational Research, Management Sciences, decision making, sustainability and renewable energy and were extracted from the "Web of Science and Scopus" databases. Papers were classified into 15 main application areas. Furthermore, papers were categorized based on the nationalities of authors, dates of publications, techniques and methods, type of studies, the names of the journals and studies purposes. Theresults of this study indicated that more papers on VIKOR technique were published in 2013 than in any other year. In addition, 13 papers were published about sustainability and renewable energy fields. Furthermore, VIKOR and fuzzy VIKOR methods, had the first rank in use. Additionally, the Journal of Expert Systems with Applications was the most significant journal in this study, with 27 publications on the topic. Finally, Taiwan had the first rank from 22 nationalities which used VIKOR technique.

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Section: Health-care Fieldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

VIKOR Technique: A Systematic Review of the State of the Art Literature on Methodologies and Applications

Mardani

Zavadskas

Govindan³

et al. 2016

Sustainability

284

137

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“…Therefore, selecting the effective HCW treatment alternative and considering the need of multiple conflicting criteria problems such as economical, technical, environmental, and social, and their related sub-criteria with the involvement of a group of experts. It is viewed as a complex multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem [1,3,13,66].…”

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“…Therefore, healthcare facilities must employ cost-effective and effective treatment and disposal technologies for their clinical wastes based on the classification and characteristics of wastes to decrease volume and reduce cost as well as prevent environmental hazards and protect occupational safety [1,10]. Hence, many potential evaluation factors -including economical, technical, environmental, and social -must be considered to determine an appropriate healthcare waste treatment alternative for safe healthcare management [11][12][13]. The main objectives of this review are as follows: 1.…”

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Healthcare Waste Treatment and Disposal Alternatives: Malaysian Scenario

Ghasemi

Yusuff

2016

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…As the assessment of healthcare waste disposal alternatives is a complicated multi-criteria decision-making problem which requires the consideration of multiple alternative solutions and conflicting tangible and intangible criteria, one possibility for evaluation is to use a technique based on fuzzy set theory and the VIKOR method (Liu et al, 2013). Soares et al (2013) also took a systematic approach for analyzing the costs of small generators of healthcare waste for three disinfection techniques (microwave, autoclave, and lime) followed by transportation and landfilling.…”

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Microwave as an emerging technology for the treatment of biohazardous waste: A mini-review

Zimmermann¹

2017

Waste Manag Res

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Microwave is an emerging technology to treat biohazardous waste, including material from healthcare facilities. A screen of the peerreviewed literature shows that only limited information may be found in this area of work and, furthermore, analysis of the references reveals that sometimes not all necessary aspects for the appropriate use of the technology are considered. Very often conventional microwave technology is applied for the inactivation of pathogens, which might make sense for certain applications but, on the other hand, may lead to the misbelief that microwave systems cannot be used for the inactivation of a solid "dry" waste. However, conventional microwave units have no means to control the inactivation process, and especially moisture content. But there are a few sophisticated microwave technologies with appropriate measurements allowing a validated inactivation of biohazardous materials. These technologies are an effective tool for inactivation and some of them are commercially available. It must also be considered that the waste should be preferably inactivated either directly at the place where it is generated or biohazardous waste should be transported only in closed systems. Moreover, microwave technology presents a possibility to save energy costs in comparison to the more widely used autoclaves. This mini-review will discuss important aspects for the use of microwave technology for the treatment of biohazardous waste.

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Assessment of health-care waste disposal methods using a VIKOR-based fuzzy multi-criteria decision making method

Cited by 147 publications

References 47 publications

VIKOR Technique: A Systematic Review of the State of the Art Literature on Methodologies and Applications

VIKOR Technique: A Systematic Review of the State of the Art Literature on Methodologies and Applications

Advantages and Disadvantages of Healthcare Waste Treatment and Disposal Alternatives: Malaysian Scenario

Microwave as an emerging technology for the treatment of biohazardous waste: A mini-review

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