Inpatient admission assessment in West China Hospital based on hesitant fuzzy linguistic VIKOR method

Distance‐based intuitionistic multiplicative multiple criteria decision‐making methods for healthcare management in West China Hospital

“…Hence, we further view the relevant literatures regarding China's hospital management. Zhang et al () used a hesitant fuzzy linguistic VIKOR method to solve the inpatient admission assessment problem at the WCH, based on the following criteria: “urgency,” “need for hospitalization,” and “value of clinical pathology.” However, these authors did not consider other risks, limitations on the patient's activity or time spent on the waiting list. After consulting experts and staff in the admission centre and referring to the previous literatures, we developed an approach that would address these shortcomings, specifying the following admission criteria and corresponding weights.…”

“…First, the approaches proposed for handing inpatient admission management in other countries (see Ashour & Kremer, ; Mariotti, Siciliani, Rebba, et al, ; Rahimi, Jamshidi, Ait‐Kadi, & Bartolome, ; Rahimi, Jamshidi, Ruiz, & Ait‐kadi, ; Solans‐Domènech, Adam, Tebé, & Espallargues, ; Valente et al, ) are not appropriate to the China context. Second, although some Chinese scholars (Zhang et al, ) have considered the problem, they have only considered evaluation criteria such as “urgency,” “need for hospitalization,” “value of clinical pathology,” and not other factors such as the limitations on the person's activity or time spent on the waiting list. Here, we present a case study of inpatient admission management by the admission centre of the WCH to illustrate how distance‐based MCDM methods with IMSs can be used to circumvent these drawbacks by combining with the specific situations of Chinese hospital.…”

“…Hence, we further view the relevant literatures regarding China's hospital management. Zhang et al (2016) used a hesitant fuzzy linguistic VIKOR method to solve the inpatient admission assessment problem at the WCH, based on the following criteria: "urgency," "need for hospitalization," and "value of clinical pathology." However, these authors did not consider other risks, limitations on the patient's activity or time spent on the waiting list.…”

“…Many scholars have investigated distance measures for different kinds of fuzzy information, such as IFSs (Valente et al, 2009) are not appropriate to the China context. Second, although some Chinese scholars (Zhang et al, 2016) have considered the problem, they have only considered evaluation criteria such as "urgency," "need for hospitalization," "value of clinical pathology," and not other factors such as the limitations on the person's activity or time spent on the waiting list.Here, we present a case study of inpatient admission management by the admission centre of the WCH to illustrate how distance-based MCDM methods with IMSs can be used to circumvent these drawbacks by combining with the specific situations of Chinese hospital.Inspired by these motivations, in this paper, we investigate the Hausdorff distance measure for IMSs associated with its hybrid form, generalized weighted form, ordered weighted form, and continuous weighted form. Comparing with the existing distance measures, including the Minkowski distance, Hamming distance, and Euclidean distance (Garg, 2017;Jiang et al, 2016;Jiang, Xu, & Gao, 2015), the Hausdorff distance has good noise immunity, especially in pattern recognition, image matching, and distinct improved algorithms.…”

“…Many scholars have investigated distance measures for different kinds of fuzzy information, such as IFSs (Valente et al, 2009) are not appropriate to the China context. Second, although some Chinese scholars (Zhang et al, 2016) have considered the problem, they have only considered evaluation criteria such as "urgency," "need for hospitalization," "value of clinical pathology," and not other factors such as the limitations on the person's activity or time spent on the waiting list.…”