Decision Support System to Prioritize Ventilators for COVID-19 Patients using AHP, Interpolation, and SAW

Abstract

Ventilator shortages is a common problem faced by hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic era. Healthcare workers are forced to make choices because of how big the difference between resources and lives needing it. This issue rarely comes, because normally every patient has the same rights to receive treatment and resources, but it becomes a clear problem when there are barely enough resources. Therefore, a prioritization mechanism that can objectively decide the allocation must be made to achieve the best outcome.A decision support system is a system that can support humans using data as decision makers to help them decide semi-structured/unstructured problems. The goal of this research is to create a DSS to prioritize patients who need a ventilator by incorporating two different methods, which are AHP, Interpolation, and SAW. It is hoped that the result of the research can be used to rank patients based on predetermined criterias and policy.

Decision Support System for Suitability of Horticultural Agricultural Plant Types with Land Conditions Using Interpolation Profile Matching

“…The interpolation method is used for data scoring, this method is adapted from linear interpolation which is used to estimate a value based on two other values. It is automatically applied to map alternate values to the specified range of values [19]. The main result of this study is expected to be able to build a Decision Support System (DSS) for the selection of the best alternative horticultural crops with suitable land in the Napugera Village area, Sikka Regency.…”