PMID- 23377778
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20141218
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1573-689X (Electronic)
IS  - 0148-5598 (Linking)
VI  - 37
IP  - 2
DP  - 2013 Apr
TI  - VIKOR method with enhanced accuracy for multiple criteria decision making in 
      healthcare management.
PG  - 9908
LID - 10.1007/s10916-012-9908-1 [doi]
AB  - Visekriterijumsko kompromisno rangiranje (VIKOR) method is one of the commonly 
      used multi criteria decision making (MCDM) methods for improving the quality of 
      decision making. VIKOR has an advantage in providing a ranking procedure for 
      positive attributes and negative attributes when it is used and examined in 
      decision support. However, we noticed that this method may failed to support an 
      objective result in medical field because most medical data have normal reference 
      ranges (e.g., for normally distributed data: NRR in [mu +/- 1.96sigma], this limitation 
      shows a negative effect on the acceptance of it as an effective decision 
      supporting method in medical decision making. This paper proposes an improved 
      VIKOR method with enhanced accuracy (ea-VIKOR) to make it suitable for such data 
      in medical field by introducing a new data normalization method taking the 
      original distance to the normal reference range (ODNRR) into account. In 
      addition, an experimental example was presented to demonstrate efficiency and 
      feasibility of the ea-VIKOR method, the results demonstrate the ability of 
      ea-VIKOR to deal with moderate data and support the decision making in healthcare 
      care management. For this reason, the ea-VIKOR should be considered for use as a 
      decision support tool for future study.
FAU - Zeng, Qiang-Lin
AU  - Zeng QL
AD  - Department of Nephrology & Rheumatology, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical 
      College, Zunyi, 563003, China, qlzeng@hotmail.com.
FAU - Li, Dan-Dan
AU  - Li DD
FAU - Yang, Yi-Bin
AU  - Yang YB
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20130203
PL  - United States
TA  - J Med Syst
JT  - Journal of medical systems
JID - 7806056
SB  - IM
MH  - Algorithms
MH  - Decision Support Systems, Management/*standards
MH  - *Health Facility Administration
MH  - Software Design
EDAT- 2013/02/05 06:00
MHDA- 2014/12/19 06:00
CRDT- 2013/02/05 06:00
PHST- 2012/07/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/12/29 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/02/05 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/02/05 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/12/19 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s10916-012-9908-1 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Med Syst. 2013 Apr;37(2):9908. doi: 10.1007/s10916-012-9908-1. Epub 2013 Feb 3.