PMID- 24011433
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140602
LR  - 20131028
IS  - 1879-2456 (Electronic)
IS  - 0956-053X (Linking)
VI  - 33
IP  - 12
DP  - 2013 Dec
TI  - Assessment of health-care waste disposal methods using a VIKOR-based fuzzy 
      multi-criteria decision making method.
PG  - 2744-51
LID - S0956-053X(13)00379-6 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.wasman.2013.08.006 [doi]
AB  - Nowadays selection of the appropriate treatment method in health-care waste (HCW) 
      management has become a challenge task for the municipal authorities especially 
      in developing countries. Assessment of HCW disposal alternatives can be regarded 
      as a complicated multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem which requires 
      consideration of multiple alternative solutions and conflicting tangible and 
      intangible criteria. The objective of this paper is to present a new MCDM 
      technique based on fuzzy set theory and VIKOR method for evaluating HCW disposal 
      methods. Linguistic variables are used by decision makers to assess the ratings 
      and weights for the established criteria. The ordered weighted averaging (OWA) 
      operator is utilized to aggregate individual opinions of decision makers into a 
      group assessment. The computational procedure of the proposed framework is 
      illustrated through a case study in Shanghai, one of the largest cities of China. 
      The HCW treatment alternatives considered in this study include "incineration", 
      "steam sterilization", "microwave" and "landfill". The results obtained using the 
      proposed approach are analyzed in a comparative way.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2013. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
FAU - Liu, Hu-Chen
AU  - Liu HC
AD  - School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, PR China; 
      Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Tokyo Institute of 
      Technology, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan.
FAU - Wu, Jing
AU  - Wu J
FAU - Li, Ping
AU  - Li P
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20130904
PL  - United States
TA  - Waste Manag
JT  - Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
JID - 9884362
RN  - 0 (Medical Waste)
RN  - 0 (Medical Waste Disposal)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Decision Support Techniques
MH  - Fuzzy Logic
MH  - Medical Waste
MH  - Medical Waste Disposal/*methods
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Fuzzy sets
OT  - Health-care waste management
OT  - OWA operator
OT  - VIKOR method
EDAT- 2013/09/10 06:00
MHDA- 2014/06/03 06:00
CRDT- 2013/09/10 06:00
PHST- 2013/01/06 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/07/08 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2013/08/09 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/09/10 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/09/10 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/06/03 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0956-053X(13)00379-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.wasman.2013.08.006 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Waste Manag. 2013 Dec;33(12):2744-51. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2013.08.006. Epub 
      2013 Sep 4.